At last year’s edition of the ideas conference PopTech, neuroscientist David Eagleman outlined a concept he calls Possibilianism. Here’s how he described it last year, in the vein of deGrasse Tyson, Sagan, James, and romantic hippie scientists everywhere:

“our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story (say, a man with a beard on a cloud) is true or not true. But with Possibilianism I’m hoping to define a new position—one that emphasizes the exploration of new, unconsidered possibilities. Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind; it is not interested in committing to any particular story.”