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What are we doing when we _really_ believe? Sometimes I have think that similar effects occur at the level where beliefs become pivotal to our ways of thinking and making decisions. I think of these as ‘functional pivots’; points about which the belief allows leverage on us.pic.twitter.com/b3L7BTUGsS
The mere idea of ‘functional pivots’, can act as a functional pivot, although as I’m not a _believer_ they don’t behave the way Carse suggests of extreme versions of conviction. They’re like points in thinky-space which can be pinned or let go of....they can be structural or not
I vaguely assume that we can never really escape beliefs....they’re part of the fabric of our experience. Question is, how can we think about belief in ways which allow people to move from conviction (in Carse’s usage) to the “higher ignorance” of uncertainty?
I was reminded of this question when watching a Hitchens video, and although I generally agree with his assertions as to the costs of orthodoxies, I haven’t a clue how humans could ever stop doing that. At best you might get a few clusters of individuals through that needle-eye.
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