praxis

“What was once useful may no longer be useful.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR2P5vW-nVc

What’s so special about knowledge? Knowledge can be wrong and outlive its usefulness. A spoon may be in my hand or I could just be hallucinating it. A...

I know I know! Meeting God.

Isn’t that just your associative memory at work, guessing it’s a phone, and if you put more thought into it you might think that I would try to make i...

Well, for instance, I could ask you what I’m holding in my hand. You might well guess that I’m holding a phone. If you did guess that, would you belie...

You’ve been saying that predictions are beliefs. If we always make beliefs (predictions), then what do we believe when we can’t recognize, understand,...

Be that as it may, the framework is such that individual determinations contribute to a group determination. The individual determinations are determi...

We have Norway rats in our neighborhood. Once they were invading our bird feeders so my bro lent me a rat trap that doesn't harm them. I'd catch'm and...

Seems an arbitrary distinction, as though saying that when holding a cup in hand we can believe it’s a cup but we can’t believe in the cups texture or...

I’ve read Barrett’s book on constructed emotion theory, but I was more thinking of thousand brains theory. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LaAYuygr7_8 A...

Because I don’t think that subconscious predictions are beliefs.

I don’t see how they can change unless we are aware of them. If I have a belief that I’m unaware of it would never change.

Americans don’t deserve a leader who accepts facts.

One consequence is in learning. If I’m reading you right, you seem to be saying that in everything thing we do, we always believe that we’re doing it ...

Prediction precedes belief?

A mind is conscious, so it appears you’re drawing the line there and subconscious processes do not entail beliefs.

I’m curious where the line is drawn. If consciousness isn’t a prerequisite then it would be correct to say that my phone (specifically the calculator ...

So if I'm walking down a flight of stairs and I have a propensity to act as if the next step is the same dimentions as the previous steps but I trip b...

About a propensity to act, why are we calling that a belief rather than, say, a conditioned response?

So almost but not perfectly. A shade of meaning.

Us Yanks, well, one at least, see a difference between the the following statements. "I think God exists" "I believe God exists" The former suggests c...

In a court of law, reasonable doubt gets an acquittal and reasonable conviction… gets a conviction. In this area there seems to be a moral imperative ...

Oompa loompa … If you’re not a returning banned member you will go far Doompety doo!

If we’re not sure about something why would we need to hold it to be true?

They don’t say things like “I believe God exists” in Limey town? So the mind constructs ‘it’.

It suggests more a commitment, that I will ‘hold it to be true’, when I would rather be more adaptive. I know it’s beside the point, I’m just saying t...

Isn’t fact checking or verification the alternative to belief? If you’re opposed to holding something to be true then, if it matters, you must be for ...

My agreement with the spirit of the OP hasn’t changed, though I think that I’ve benefited from the discussion in exploring the nature of belief.

A bit.

You mean this part: It certainly appears contradictory. I would have put it differently, and sort of the other way around. I may believe things but I'...

Faith also has a sense of loyalty or reliance, like being faithful to one's family or fulfilling obligations.

Was I too self-righteous and stuff?

It can be a lot of work if you prepare the chilies from scratch. Good though. Say no to beans.

Anyway, I don't think that I've suggested it's wrong to believe anything. I don't know why I would hold something to be true to myself. If I had an id...

Can't a person believe a religious truth and not doubt it regardless of the evidence?

It's constructed in at least the sense that the screen is distinguished from everything else. Parsing statements into actions on purpose.

I still don't see the significance. Btw, we still have mental representations that are internal and in that way we can 'see the model'. For example, I...

I can't decide which is worse, the tie designs or the ad message.

I think there's a difference between expressing a degree of certainty and expressing an intention to hold something to be the case. Take these two sta...

Slavoj Žižek seems to have a better grasp of it, in my inexpert opinion. Desmet seemed almost comically biased.

Trump was againts lockdowns, as I recall. Granted he wasn't much of a leader. It's a scary term though, you have to admit, and fear motivates. He said...

It's cute when Lauren Boebert (American Republican representative) says that no one's gonna make her get the Fauci Ouchie, and there's plently more li...

Again, I've only heard of anti-vax protests. I haven't heard of vax protests or riots. It concerns the spread of serious diseases like polio, smallpox...

It says AVA regions? Not exactly narrowing it down. https://cawg.imiscloud.com/images/AVAS%20MAP.JPG

That's not very unusual for any discussion around here, actually. With freedom comes responsibility. I'm fond of saying that.

How is this radical intolerance expressed? I haven't heard of any vax riots. I've heard of anti-vax protests.

Is your inner thought police making you understate the facts? Internal blockages of this nature are not healthy.

That topic is fun.

Roughly an 80% death rate for the unvaccinated compared to 20% for the vaccinated. Hmm, that isn't rather limited in effectiveness. I'm afraid to ask ...

"Rather limited" is a bit vague. Could you be more specific and/or say how you've arrived at this conclusion? Don't let your internal thought police s...