Beautifully Improbable

I love the enticing ambiguity of mysteries
true science evokes awe and exploration
over dogmatism, there is not enough
data to rule out any possibilities

Beautiful religious stories crystallise hard-
won wisdom, but religious structures are
based on personality cults, we know too
little to commit to atheism

So what if we were planted by aliens, who
cares whether there are civilisations in a
myriad spatial dimensions, whether we are
nodes in a cosmic computational device

All such debates are limited, the goal is not to
fight for one story in the absence of evidence
everything shall be explored and celebrated
in ‘possibility space’ - the entire

Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition, Eastern
religions, atheism, all things wild and wonderful
and beautifully improbable - in the absence of
data nothing can be ruled out of space

Possibilianism shines an open-minded light
in possibility space to explore ALL new ideas
and unconsidered notions, representing the
heart of real science - holding

Limitless possibilities, working to see which is
most supported by data, when data-gathering
is impossible ALL possibilities are retained, at
first anything goes, then science

Rules out parts of possibility space and rules
in new parts, the world contains much more
magical exploration of possibility space and
I find doubt delightful more often than not!


[A summary of an article by David Eagelman]

Beyond God and atheism: Why I am a 'possibilian'
27 September 2010 by David Eagleman

“When it comes to the big questions, why should
we have to either deny God or believe? Surely
good science doesn't so restrict us”
says David Eagleman

(I did not know what to call my collection of lovely
ideas until I came across an article by David
Eagleman making it clear that I am a
Possibilian following Possibilianism!)