Stephen T Asma
Professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of 10 books, including The Evolution of Imagination (2017) and his latest, Why We Need Religion (2018).
Ancient animistic beliefs live on in our intimacy with tech
Our social emotions are now being hijacked by robots.
Religion is about emotion regulation, and it’s very good at it
We need religion not to tell us what to think but to help us feel: it has evolved to manage human emotions.