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Old 09-05-2007, 12:09 AM
luckyme luckyme is offline
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Default Having a belief

Ok, I'm ready to tackle this again.
We use the phrase, " I have a belief" and we tend to regard it as " I have a toe".
My understanding of mind is that, unlike the toe, the belief isn't there when we don't probe for it. There isn't a file somewhere in the brain that has belief X encoded on it. There isn't a fragged group of file parts that add up to belief X. Rather, beliefs are an emergent type of experience that manifests itself in response to a probe.

To bunny - I won't say I know this or believe this, it's just a view of the situation that I have.

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