Then I'm not criticising what you call faith. I am criticising commitment to a position without evidence. When faith is used synonymously with confidence or trust in something, it is a completely different thing. There are good and bad reasons to have trust in things.https://twitter.com/gm_palmer/status/979334798249402368 …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
For frigging sure. A commitment to a position without *any* evidence is usually pretty bad (and since you're committed without knowing what it is you're wide open to manipulation).
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Replying to @gm_palmer
In religion, faith is explicitly a virtue and overcoming doubt and standing firm in your faith despite evidence against it is especially virtuous. We also get this virtuous feeling when we stand by things that are meaningful to us despite lack of evidence or evidence to contrary
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Replying to @HPluckrose @gm_palmer
For me, this has mostly been people. I have stood by them and continued believing in them despite evidence that I shouldn't because they were important to me. Also, feminism. It took me a long time to accept the abundant evidence that it had gone off the rails.
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Replying to @gm_palmer
They do but this is a different impulse to finding faith virtuous. We experience shame & embarrassment when we realise we are factually wrong. The pleasure and feeling of virtue for having faith & disloyalty feeling for abandoning it is different.
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Replying to @gm_palmer
I don't know what is happening neurologically but psychologically, yes. One is akin to the virtues of loyalty & constancy. The other is akin to the shame of losing status.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
That's fascinating. I'd love to read some papers on that if you know of any. Status is something we should probably all study more closely.
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'Being Wrong' by Schultz The Spiritual Brain - Great Courses series are good.
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