RE: Is belief really a choice?
April 4, 2013 at 10:45 am
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2013 at 10:49 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Irrelevant...Mystic....the point of contention is that "choice" may not really be all that active in our beliefs. Pointing to any belief held by anyone won't erase that point of contention - unless you can establish that it was chosen.
Whether or not I would contest the premise has what to do with whether or not I chose to believe that they themselves had some choice in the matter?
(and for the record - I don't actually put my marbles behind the whole "choice" or "free-will" thing anywhere......plenty of threads with me arguing against it - you see, as I sit here and comprehend the massive chain of causality, and our place in that chain as biological computers.I find it entirely impossible to choose to believe in choice - as it is so often offered to us. When I ask others to demonstrate that they have a choice in what they believe - I'm actually trying to find a reason to believe it myself....that I cannot seem to believe in things - that I require reasons and evidence - is again, not something I seem to have had any choice in)
Whether or not I would contest the premise has what to do with whether or not I chose to believe that they themselves had some choice in the matter?
(and for the record - I don't actually put my marbles behind the whole "choice" or "free-will" thing anywhere......plenty of threads with me arguing against it - you see, as I sit here and comprehend the massive chain of causality, and our place in that chain as biological computers.I find it entirely impossible to choose to believe in choice - as it is so often offered to us. When I ask others to demonstrate that they have a choice in what they believe - I'm actually trying to find a reason to believe it myself....that I cannot seem to believe in things - that I require reasons and evidence - is again, not something I seem to have had any choice in)
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