(October 6, 2022 at 12:53 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Belief is a binary mental state.
I'm going to agree with "polymath" that this is not necessarily so, but my reasons are a bit different.
Humans are animals who evolved for survival. We are basically big bundles of desire. Logical thought is nice when we can manage it, but not the default state.
Most of our decisions are made in our subconscious minds anyway, and our subconscious parts feel no duty to be logical. You can believe something and not believe it, love something and hate it, want something and despise it.
The answer we give on a multiple-choice questionnaire may be our official public position, but how we act and how we feel deep down doesn't necessarily follow consistently from that announcement.
