I guess I don’t understand why you find them odd. My intuition is that the terms are roughly coextensive, with “believe“ possibly connoting a higher degree of confidence. (FWIW.)
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Replying to @thedrakesays
I need to do some empirical work on this; my anecdotal understanding may be mistaken.
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Replying to @Meaningness
"believe"' implies greater emotional investment, such as ideological commitment (seems heavily influenced by the Christian tradition). It suggests "ought" more than "is". But you can cue this much more strongly by other word choices like "will" vs "should".
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Replying to @robamacl @Meaningness
I would not say "believe" implies greater certainty, if anything the anxiety in it suggests the plausibility of doubt. Perhaps my atheism is showing.
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I think something like philosophical belief is an important thing, but is largely unconscious. V.S. Ramachandan on paralysis with neglect was thought provoking. http://humancond.org/books/phantoms_in_brain …
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After a stroke caused paralysis, patient sometimes denies they are paralyzed, and confabulates. "I just don't feel like moving", etc. But if you squirt ice water in their ear, they admit paralysis, and deny that they had ever denied. Then, after a while the ice effect is gone.
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Replying to @robamacl
That’s… really odd! Is there some sort of explanation for it?
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Replying to @Meaningness
In the book he has a theory, which caused him to try the ear thing in the first place. I would like to see this replicated...
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Replying to @robamacl
Neuroscientists in my family automatically discredit anything Ramachandran says as pseudoscience. I don’t know whether they are justified in doing so.
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Replying to @Meaningness
I'd certainly believe his neuroscience may be speculative or wrong, but unless he's lying be has seen some weird stuff and tried weird things that seem to work. It's not like anyone understands how the ol' jelly blob does its thing.
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Yeah; my family’s view is that brains are arbitrarily weird, especially in pathology, and we basically don’t understand them at all. But (perhaps they would say) VSR’s stories embroider apophenia into upper-middle-brow clickbait. (Again, I have no personal opinion)
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