For quite some time, I’ve wondered why so many people can believe in God (or god) and yet we have such a strange disinterest in a relationship with Him. Experimental philosophy has given us clues.
In a recent article from Scientific American Mind, Joshua Knobe an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, wrote an article entitled, “Can a Robot, an Insect or God Be Aware?: Our intuitions about consciousness in other beings and objects reveal a lot about how we think. In the article, he looks at the new field of Experimental Philosophy and how it sheds light on how we think.
