Modern Psychology

The article rejects the idea that thought and choice are caused outside the physical organism. A physical account of human beings is compatible with humanistic descriptions of people as moral, emotional, narrative, and meaning-seeking. Modern psychology explains mental life as grounded in neurons, the body, development, and evolved functions rather than an immaterial soul. Reductionistic psychology can still treat love, morality, rationality, spirituality, and meaning as real phenomena to explain.