RE: Do you control what you believe?
October 23, 2012 at 7:40 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2012 at 7:41 pm by Whateverist.)
(October 23, 2012 at 6:50 pm)jonb Wrote: My instinctive answer, would be I do no believe in anything, but if I was asked if I had presumptions, I would say so many, and I could not identify all the presumptions I had made. I think it would actually be impossible to operate without making presumptions, and I am locked in a process of refining the presumptions I have made.
And worse, we need not at all be aware of all the presumptions which we have made. If we did make them we may not remember having done so. We may not even have made them consciously. If they are only the presumptions which my organism is making independently of my conscious mind, are they still mine? Is my conscious mind a subset of my organism or is my organism supposed to be under the dominion of my conscious mind? Which aspect -conscious mind or total organism- should rightfully get to declare what is or is not mine?
