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Hazard@natural_hazard• almost 4 years ago

the "i know it's not true, but I'm going to believe it anyways" to "who cares if it's true? I'm going to believe it anyways" to "This is the way the truth and the light and that is why I believe" pipeline

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Hazard@natural_hazard• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @natural_hazard

somethings in your head are clusters of wordless cognition that let you do things like drive cars, catch baseballs, play instruments, and win poker games

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Hazard@natural_hazard• almost 4 years ago

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somethings in your head are symbolic entities that you can report on with language, and if you arrange them correctly, and only wiggle them in specific ways, they can be "about" stuff in the world, and make accurate far reaching predictions

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Hazard@natural_hazard• almost 4 years ago

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and because these symbolic entities are *symbolic*/*representational* they are subject to whatever forces tug on them, which are different forces what what tugs on the referents

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Hazard@natural_hazard• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @natural_hazard

some "beliefs" are more world-modeling anticipation like things, and some "beliefs" are more "commitment to a certain course of action" my religious faith growing up was 0% world-model, 100% commitment to certain actions

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Hazard@natural_hazard• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @natural_hazard

i also didn't have this distinction in my head. I didn't have a reflective conceptual understanding of the difference between the two

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