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People have turned to both religion and science when debating questions about our inner lives, selves, or souls.
What makes us tick? For centuries, people have used the metaphor of machines to understand the universe and themselves. Renaissance technologies like the ticking gears inside this 1550s mechanical monk helped inspire the Enlightenment-era concept of a divinely created “clockwork universe” that governed the stars, planets, and all aspects of life. Today scientists study the complex workings of the brain to understand the mechanisms that govern practices and beliefs. |