The Gist
- A neurologist and other scientists argue animals are capable of having spiritual experiences.
- The researchers hold that spiritual experiences originate within primitive parts of the human brain, structures shared by animals.
- The challenge lies in proving what animals experience.
Research suggests that spiritual experiences originate deep within primitive areas of the human brain -- areas shared by other animals with brain structures like our own.
The trick, of course, lies in proving animals' experiences.
"Since only humans are capable of language that can communicate the richness of spiritual experience, it is unlikely we will ever know with certainty what an animal subjectively experiences," Kevin Nelson, a professor of neurology at the University of Kentucky, told Discovery News.
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