What comes first belief or perspective, the chicken or the egg.
Personally I am inclined to say belief, but what kind and why? There is some evidence that belief in powers unknown is instinctive. That is not the kind of belief I want to talk about, I want to concentrate on the basic beliefs we all ,for the most part, hold. Take a child of say 2 or 3 years of age, any one who has children will know this. They do not question there own existence, that what they see is real (reality) or that they have choice (free will). None of which are falsifiable and in the case of reality demonstrably untrue.
From this base of belief, we form our perspective, we may later come to question those beliefs and therefore change our perspective.
Personally I am inclined to say belief, but what kind and why? There is some evidence that belief in powers unknown is instinctive. That is not the kind of belief I want to talk about, I want to concentrate on the basic beliefs we all ,for the most part, hold. Take a child of say 2 or 3 years of age, any one who has children will know this. They do not question there own existence, that what they see is real (reality) or that they have choice (free will). None of which are falsifiable and in the case of reality demonstrably untrue.
From this base of belief, we form our perspective, we may later come to question those beliefs and therefore change our perspective.
