![]() ![]() ![]() Would they pluck out the heart of our mystery? Would they sound us from our lowest notes to the top of our compasses? How unworthy a thing they would make of humanity, reducing its noble spirit to the base corporeality of cells and electricity!īut that is precisely not what the most exalted of these high priests do. ![]() Almost everyone now knows that the brain is the organ of thought and feeling, making those who study it the closest people we have to experts on the human soul. The anointed guardians of this sacred space are neuroscientists. However, even physicists are denied access to the holiest of holies: human consciousness. Thanks to the mind-boggling obscurity of quantum theory many of these are physicists-Carlo Rovelli is only the latest to have achieved almost prophetic status. In secular societies that role is increasingly being filled by scientists working at the frontiers of human understanding. Every culture has its shamans, oracles and priests who act as intermediaries between the known and the unknown, the seen and the unseen. ![]()
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