Sweet Bites
February 9, 2024
Hi all,
Welcome to another edition of Sweet Bites, Mind Candy’s bite-sized newsletter with some thought-provoking finds to send you off into the weekend with.
This week we explored the concept of belief and how it can assist or hinder our reasoning abilities (links below).
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Three pieces of wisdom this week on the believing brain. We are pulled toward popular beliefs, we resist changing our beliefs, and our worldview is completely shaped by the beliefs we hold.
“Socrates used to call popular beliefs "the monsters under the bed" - only useful for frightening children with.”
Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations, 11.23
“People don't just believe dumb things; they actively resist further learning rather than let go of those beliefs.”
Tom Nichols
Source: The Death of Expertise
“What you believe is what you see. The label is the behavior. Theory molds data. Concepts determine percepts. Belief dependent realism.”
Michael Shermer
Source: The Believing Brain