Religion
In reply to the discussion: how does atheism/materialism account for [View all]cbayer
(146,218 posts)I recall that during my undergraduate studies in the liberal arts, but with majors in hard sciences, I cam to believe that humans had something that it was going to be hard to explain from a purely scientific perspective.
Noting that it could just be an evolutionary step that we don't yet really understand, these kinds of powerful emotions seem to be independent of a purely neurochemical explanation.
I have since come to recognize that there are other animals that do share some of these, but it doesn't appear to be to the extent that we are imbued with them. The arts in particular seem the thing that separates us the most.
Is it a soul? Is it some shared biological process that we have not been able to explain? Is it god?
This has been what has stymied both religious and non-religious philosophers throughout humankind's history, is it not.