Is belief really a choice?

[Mystic]

And when comes to material world existing, there is a significant amount of people, who believe only spiritual world exists and material world is just created via five senses (for example Harun Yahya (his nickname) believes that). So he would not believe the laptop is real.

But is that "I choose not to believe it is real." or "What I believe contradicts with this; therefore it does not make sense for it to exist. As a result, I believe it doesn't exists."

Well, you see. There is various theories and beliefs out there. I believe the soul tends to have preferences and those preferences are somewhat chosen, and there is a sense of "acquired" taste. This is the case for morality especially. You take that and say the brain does that, the mind does that. Whatever. The case in point, I think there is some freedom and will, in our preferences.

Then we also choose how sincere we want to be with the truth.

In logic, if A -> B and B-> C, it follows A -> C. Therefore, even though there is various steps between non-believing to believing, if there is choice within those steps, then we have a choice to believe.

For example, if we chose to be rational, and reject non-rational thought, then we are choosing beliefs.

If you can't praise yourself for choosing to being rational, I don't why people then make fun of people being foolish and talking non-sense or praise people that are being intelligent and rational.