Belief is not a voluntary act.
If I offered you a hundred dollars
to believe that snow is blue
you couldn’t
No way to collect that money.
You could pretend…
Beliefs are established by our experience
and by our interactions with the world.
And they can be hard to dislodge
and it takes a lot of effort to examine
and reconsider and particularly to abandon opinions
convictions that you’ve had
when you learned that there is alternatives
and one of the hardest tasks the human mind can face
is reserving judgement about a conviction that has always seemed to you obvious
and thinking about how maybe that might not be right.
Daniel Dennett
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