Daniel Dennett on “Belief”

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1. A lot of snow can be blue because the water in it reflects the blue sky just like any water so by default snow can be blue or at least reflect blue.

2. This is my favorite horseman

3. Meanwhile people who live in North Korea:👁️👄👁️ AM I A JOKE TO YOU

4. Salute to the great horseman

5. wow. i finally gained a modicum of respect for 1 of the 4 horsemen.
   belief is not always a voluntary act. no matter how hard i have tried to believe God couldnt exist, there has never been any kind of evidence to convince me to believe He doesnt..

6. These are words of reason and logic. Problem is the greatest legal fraud in history has had people believe that their books are historically correct and god suspended rules of physics, and sciences for the miracles performed only then. Fairytales go against the human experiences and interaction with our world and that’s what makes these “miracles” so “special”.

7. Delusion

8. …And yet, a truly open mind and the willingness to alter or abandon convictions will be slandered as "weak" of faith or mind for allowing themselves to waver. The ignorant are always the most arrogant. It's very difficult to imagine painting a vast landscape, much less accomplishing the feat, when one insists on holding tightly to just one crayon. To such a person, that crayon is the only medium and the only color that exists, and any others described must be lies or fantasies.
   If every person were forced to spend ONE DAY with a mind absent of preconceptions, prejudices, and programming, they could never return to their imprisoned state of mind without knowingly and wantonly lying to themselves.
   Closing Pandora's Box is no small task…

9. We've lost a great light

10. RIP

11. RIP 🙏
    Thank you for everything

12. 👏🙂

13. 👍🏾🙏🏾🥰

14. Saintly atheist

15. I've had to do this myself in dealing with psychoses. It's always a battle to come to the realisation that what was going on in my mind, what i believed, wasn't real.

16. We all have heroes.

17. I can turn the snow yellow😮

18. There has been some advances in the epistemological position called ‘voluntarism’ (sometimes ‘activism’) which challenges Dennett’s orthodoxy. Bas van Fraassen has hinted at the idea that some beliefs may be wilfully acquired (though that may not be the best way of glossing voluntarism’). Keith Frankish, another prominent philosopher, has addressed the issue. B

    Much of my early study was a kind of triangulation on the work of Jerry Fodor, Daniel Dennett and Andy Clark (my teacher). Fodor died recently (seems recent to me). Now DCD. A remarkably powerful and productive era in the theory of mind may have come to an end. At least as the triangle goes. Also at an end perhaps is the counterintuitive idea of deep philosophical work being expressed as very humorous, often irreverent banter.

19. He was an honest man. I can't agree that beliefs are entirely based on our experience. Some are based on what we are told by people that we trust.

20. Truly puzzling how all this horse manure was accepted as sophisticated thinking 😂😂😂😂😂 My goodness. What a load of crap.

21. What a mind

22. Thank you.

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