Wow, that was beautiful. And I do think about the Stanford marshmallow experiment pretty often. I think I’ve heard it said, maybe by Einstein, if you go deep enough into science, it becomes spiritual. Most people aren’t scientists so they don’t understand what that’s like. They understand science from all the *knowns* it provides—the things that make exploration unnecessary. And science is predicated on theories, which require a belief that something might be true. When you’re navigating that domain, there can be no other term for it because it’s unknown, so we just say “spiritual”... but, you’re right, science is just one way to interact with that.
I think Einstein describes that state of mystery as the “cosmic religious feeling”
Wow, that was beautiful. And I do think about the Stanford marshmallow experiment pretty often. I think I’ve heard it said, maybe by Einstein, if you go deep enough into science, it becomes spiritual. Most people aren’t scientists so they don’t understand what that’s like. They understand science from all the *knowns* it provides—the things that make exploration unnecessary. And science is predicated on theories, which require a belief that something might be true. When you’re navigating that domain, there can be no other term for it because it’s unknown, so we just say “spiritual”... but, you’re right, science is just one way to interact with that.