Without overcomplicating it—confirmation bias makes us see the world in a way that reinforces our existing beliefs. If you believe people are bad and ...
For what it's worth, I very much enjoy reading your conversations here. For me this is a place to understand what people believe and why. Your dialogu...
It will be interesting to explore this. I think the connecting between faith and intuition is only partially successful. The intuitions which work ten...
Certainly doesn't seem any stranger than some contemporary formulations of physics. Your general thesis doesn't seem that difficult to follow. Humans ...
Maybe, but is faith the right word - is "reasonable confidence" a better term? The problem is anyone can say they have revealed knowledge of something...
No. I'm talking about something else: How faith can be problematic even for theists. If two theists say they have faith that god exists there is no re...
And for many believers too. The fact that faith can support or reject slavery; support or reject misogyny; support or reject war; support or reject ca...
True, but my main point is that faith is never entirely independent of reasoning: it's embedded in a web of interdependent values and justifications f...
One thing that occurs to me is that very few believers come to a position on faith. People invariably have reasons for their faith in a particular ver...
If I say slavery is right because I have it on faith and you say, no, I have it on faith it’s wrong - we arrive at space where we uncover the shortcom...
Thanks. Have you ever watched Malcolm Guite’s YouTube channel? He’s a very literate English Anglican priest in his 60’s who talks a lot about Tolkien,...
Powerful argument. I know a number of secular types who like to quote the elderly Pablo Casals who once said of all the world's problems - "The situat...
I almost never use the word faith. I have a "reasonable confidence" in things, not a faith. People try to use faith to describe things like crossing t...
Slow Horses Season One - intermittently engaging British espionage series. I was expecting more. This one was a somewhat pedestrian account of an extr...
Fair enough. Someone like Kastrup would respond that genes (physicalism) is what consciousness looks like when viewed from a particular perspective. W...
Don't know it that's accurate - your argument assumes that a shared biology requires a pre-existing external world. How do you rule out the possibilit...
I'm not saying I agree with Hoffman, just that there are arguments against evolution as providing a true picture of reality. A similar argument is put...
Are these points truly incompatible with the argument? Husserl, for one, suggests that we seem to share a world because language, social practices, an...
Good point. The moment we use language to articulate notions of "non-ness" we're a bit lost. How do you feel about those who might say, ok then, there...
I have sympathy for Wayfarer's account. It does seem to be the case that our mind - our particular cognitive apparatus, with its characteristics and l...
I don't know. Sure, some people change views, but then people also fall in and out of love. I'm not confident that it is reasoning that crystallises c...
Nicely written and reasoned. I have no significant commitments to any particular perspective except that my intuition and observations suggest (to me)...
Huh? I was putting this from the potential perspective of a person experiencing suicidality to highlight how your point seems to work in reverse. This...
Which might also be a polite way of saying that only certain sensitive or bright people understand FN - a common tactic used to dismiss criticism. But...
Yes. Even sooner. Given the shorter I live, the less I have to relive. But frankly, I have no good reasons to accept this frame as anything more than ...
Who would know? What do they say about him -easiest to read, hardest to understand? I certainly can’t make any sense out of him - even the Kaufmann tr...
Yes. And predictably just her saying this kind of thing is enough to have made her a target for assassination. So the idea that it's just book burning...
There would have been a time when burning a Bible would result in death or torture or imprisonment in the West. We now have a religion that has grown ...
I think my point is not unreasonable. But I am not saying a classical education leads to these things. Nor am I saying that it is merely a Western pro...
Maybe. It might just amount to set dressing for a new production of right-wing authoritarianism. Remember too that classical education was king when c...
You may be right and I'm not agreeing with the OP per say. I'm saying that there seems to be a cultural shift and renewed interest in Western civilisa...
The issue, as I see it, is the role of the sacred and how far someone will go to defend it. My view is that Muslims in the West should obey the laws. ...
No. But my perspective is that of a privileged, secular, decadent Westerner - the product of his times. How can we bridge the gap between Western and ...
This is the key to this entire discussion. For a devout believer, there is an enormous difference in magnitude between blasphemy and all other crimes ...
It doesn’t seem surprising, given the range of hugely popular nostalgia-driven projects offered by figures like Jordan Peterson, Dr Iain McGilchrist a...
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