Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist (The MIT Press)

by Christof Koch

It is only in recent years that I have managed to resolve this conflict. I slowly but surely lost my faith in a personal God. I stopped believing that somebody watches over me, intervenes on my behalf in the world, and will resurrect my soul beyond history, in the eschaton. I lost my childhood faith, yet I’ve never lost my abiding faith that everything is as it should be! I feel deep in my bones that the universe has meaning that we can realize. A Carefree Childhood as a Budding Scientist My father had studied law, joined the German foreign service, and became a diplomat.