Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha...
by kian on Sunday June 13, 2021 @12:58PM
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I would highly recommend "A General Theory of Love" as the antidote to belief in the last example you gave. A poetically beautiful book.
Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha...
by mensetmanusman on Sunday June 13, 2021 @01:35PM
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It might be an antidote, if one asserts that humans are just chemicals.
Many people believe in the assertion that there is free will though, which is a supernatural belief.
If we are just chemicals, than those that believe there exists free will believe that out of no volition of their own.
E.g. the laws of physics happened to be tuned for the eventual existence of a cloud of atoms seeming to contemplate this on a HN forum ;)
In either case, both seem amazing.
Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha...
by kian on Monday June 14, 2021 @04:13PM
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At the risk of mis-stating the hypothesis, the book is more about the active coupling or entrainment of bio-rhythms between individuals as what 'love' is. That we are able to regulate the bio-rhythms of others with our own, and we do so when we feel 'close' to those people in some way or other.
For example, the scientific method has little to no utility about whether your grandma loves you, or what love is even.
Much of a life is built around areas of thought like this. Politics, for example, is mostly preference.