The way our brain is set up the way our brain works is very compatible with the way people believe and experience religion spirituality in God. Until our brain undergoes some kind of huge evolutionary change we're going to be able to hold on to these ideas. When a preacher said you know the other day God told me so that means that is real well.
Neil deGrasse Tyson investigates free will, morality, meditation, psychedelic experiences, artificial intelligence, and more alongside neuroscientist and author Sam Harris, comic co-host Godfrey, neurotheologist Andrew Newberg, and neuroscientist Robert Wright. You have no choice but to listen.
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