College socialized me to dismiss religion. It was part of the academic zeitgeist: Smart people don’t believe that stuff anymore. I became a child of the Enlightenment, a materialist, confident the ...

What is the human psyche and what is its relationship to the science of psychology? Is the human psyche a scientific construct? Can it be “reduced” to the brain? UTOK, the Unified Theory of Knowledge ...

The idea of a “soul” has been central to many belief systems across history. Whether in religion, philosophy, or even certain branches of psychology, different schools of thought have tried to answer ...

In my previous post, I explained why the traditional soul is a testable hypothesis about the nature and functioning of the human mind. What then can we conclude about the existence of the soul? In a ...