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What is Lisa Miller's advice for scientists who struggle to believe?

Answered from When Bad Things Happen to Good People · Hidden Brain · 2026-10-05

Responding to a PhD immunologist who could not find enough data to believe again, Lisa Miller said people are born with several ways of knowing: logic and empiricism alongside intuition and mystical awareness. She urges bringing the inner logician and the inner mystic into conversation rather than letting one silence the other. Miller adds that science itself can be a form of witness and is deeply awe-inspiring.

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