The Dallas Morning News has a short interview with neuroscientist and author David Eagleman, who calls himself a Possibilian – as in, it’s possible that life exists after death. The theory has taken hold after Eagleman went on NPR last February.
Eagleman explains how Possibilians are different from atheists or agnostics:
“They usually bring God, or lack of God, into it. But I think it’s so important that we celebrate our ignorance on this – any real scientist will tell you by what an enormous margin the mystery outstrips what we actually know. There are as many possibilities, literally, as we can imagine. Possibilians (and Sum) go beyond God to other concepts of who or what might be running things. Or not. … It’s about shining a flashlight around all that unexplored space.”