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Scientists Often Talk Of Parsimony (as In "the Simplest Explanation Is Probably Correct," Also Known As Occam's Razor), But We Should Not Get Seduced By The Apparent Elegance Of Argument From Parsimony; This Line Of Reasoning Has Failed In The Past At Least As Many Times As It Has Succeeded.

Our Ignorance Of The Cosmos Is Too Vast To Commit To Atheism, And Yet We Know Too Much To Commit To A Particular Religion. A Third Position, Agnosticism, Is Often An Uninteresting Stance In Which A Person Simply Questions Whether His Traditional Religious Story (say, A Man With A Beard On A Cloud) Is True Or Not True. But With Possibilianism I’m Hoping To Define A New Position - One That Emphasizes The Exploration Of New, Unconsidered Possibilities. Possibilianism Is Comfortable Holding Multiple Ideas In Mind; It Is Not Interested In Committing To Any Particular Story.

If An Epileptic Seizure Is Focused In A Particular Sweet Spot In The Temporal Lobe, A Person Won´t Have Motor Seizures, But Instead Something More Subtle. The Effect Is Something Like A Cognitive Seizure, Marked By Changes Of Personality, Hyperreligiosity (an Obsession With Religion And Feelings Of Religious Certainity), Hypergraphia (extensive Writing On A Subject, Usually About Religion), The False Sense Of An External Presence, And, Often, The Hearing Voices That Are Attributed To A God. Some Fraction Of History´s Prophets, Martyrs, And Leaders Appear To Have Had Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.

You Are Part Of A Complex Social Network That Changes Your Biology With Every Interaction, And Which Your Actions Can Change.

After All, Across The Population There Are Slight Differences In Brain Function, And Sometimes These Translate Directly Into Different Ways Of Experiencing The World. And Each Individual Believes His Way Is Reality.