Re:Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active
by Traubenfuchs on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @11:46AM
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By all means, don't follow "our scriptures", whatever those may be, but accept that we consider anything anyone would call "faith" and belief in the super natural somewhere on the scale between magical thinking and mental illness.
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Re:Our brain is a prediction machine that is always active
by mistermann on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:22PM
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If people were so forgiving when it's time to walk the talk.
Regardless, this (particularly, the conceptualization of the supernatural) is somewhat of a variation of the kind of thinking that I'm referring to. I don't disagree that this isn't formally documented in scripture, but nonetheless it seems to have somehow ended up broadly installed in minds (both theist and atheist, to be fair), not unlike how various behaviors can be observed in theists despite it not being a part of formal scripture.