How Real are Your Beliefs?
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Our beliefs affect how we interact with the world, but they also go away when we stop believing them. How real, then, are our beliefs?
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the end reminds me of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy quote "I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
I was just talking to my friend about materialism. Conveniently timed video. Also, good video.
I don't think I believe in free will but I also think it doesn't matter and acting as if you have free will is always the correct way to go.
I felt the same like you.
Reading gerhads roth „the brain and its reality“ changed my world few as a whole. Sadly free will is only a small part of the book so i don`t know if you would like to read it.
But to assure you one thing, i still feel pretty much like you do.
one thing you said made me ponder about a serious subject.
We nowadays know that free will is not ‚real‘ or at least not what we think it is. But as you said, people that belief in it are still way more successful.
This made me anxious about how the interpretation of our free will can be used very dangerously. I read Gerhard‘s Roth „the brain and its reality“ and I concluded that his interpretation of the missing free will leads to something much more powerfull than what we thought of „free will“.
Now as you said how more successful people got different beliefs, this made me worry about how „scientific facts“ can be used to create an apathetic society, since „scientific facts“ and their interpretation are litteraly two different worlds.
I hope this won‘t happen, but the longer I think about it, the more i get the feeling that this is already happening in a ton of subjects.
What do you think?
I think you're describing a well-documented phenomenon called the "framing effect." The same facts, when phrased differently, can have opposite effects on the people who hear them. I believe truth alone is no virtue, it's what we do with it that matters.
Key that complexity confounds cause and effect.
I believe with all my heart , that you are guilty of stealing the chickmonks
i dont think we can say that any individual thing or concept is True, it is only the combination of all things in the universe taken in at once that we can use Truth with a capital T.
This video depends on "real" being as you defined it. I'm not sure that is the most useful definition. I suppose I'll need to watch your other video.
I think of "reality is what doesn't go away when you stop believing in it" as a guide to searching for a definition. The definition I use is "cause and effect and the forces that drive them."
Beliefs aren't patterns of electricity. I feel like you could call them patterns, but you can't be that specific.
Let's say we met some aliens who had completely different physiology and their brains worked based on, I don't know, ants running around in glass tubes or something like that Terry Pratchett computer. Or some kind of liquid or gas flowing around. If we can speak their language, if we could have a conversation with them, then we could give them some of our ideas. Then, if we all died out, those ideas would remain behind and still be the same but they would be patterns of ants running around or whatever. However the aliens think
True!