There's space for hope, belief, and faith

in #faith3 days ago

I finished reading Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions, author: Sabine Hossenfelder. I think it almost fulfills its promise: "In the end, I hope you will find comfort in knowing that you do not need to silence rational thought to make space for hope, belief, and faith."

But I always remember this quote: "Science does not dehumanize man, it de-homunculizes him. —B. F. Skinner, 1971"

I read about homuncular thinking in science sometime ago in the book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter of the author Terrence W. Deacon.

There is a very interesting discussion in the book about homuncular thinking. Deacon and others have identified, where many scientific explanations subtly reintroduce mind-like agents instead of explaining how mental phenomena emerge.

So, I still can't see how to find hope, belief, and faith without the existence of a mind-like agent living somehow somewhere...