The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series - Understanding Beliefs - Nils J. Nilsson
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Release date: 08-25-15
What beliefs are, what they do for us, how we come to hold them, and how to evaluate them.
Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future. We have beliefs about other people, and we believe that they have beliefs as well. We use beliefs to predict, to explain, to create, to console, to entertain. Some of our beliefs we call theories, and we are extraordinarily creative at constructing them. Theories of quantum mechanics, evolution, and relativity are examples. But so are theories about astrology, alien abduction, guardian angels, and reincarnation. All are products (with varying degrees of credibility) of fertile minds trying to find explanations for observed phenomena. In this book, Nils Nilsson examines beliefs: what they do for us, how we come to hold them, and how to evaluate them. We should evaluate our beliefs carefully, Nilsson points out, because they influence so many of our actions and decisions.
Some of our beliefs are more strongly held than others, but all should be considered tentative and changeable. Nilsson shows that beliefs can be quantified by probability, and he describes networks of beliefs in which the probabilities of some beliefs affect the probabilities of others. He argues that we can evaluate our beliefs by adapting some of the practices of the scientific method and by consulting expert opinion. And he warns us about “belief traps”–holding onto beliefs that wouldn’t survive critical evaluation. The best way to escape belief traps, he writes, is to expose our beliefs to the reasoned criticism of others.
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This post has 6 comments with rating of 5/5
June 22nd, 2020
I grovel before your feet of eternal knowledge
(Yes, I picture you as a pair of shining, golden feet. Dashing out knowledge left, right and center for us mortals to consume)
Good day, sir.
June 22nd, 2020
These are fun - thank you very much.
June 23rd, 2020
Yes! Exactly what we need to understand beliefs. Thank you!
June 26th, 2020
He forgot the most important tip about beliefs. How to dump them. Most are dead people’s baggage - mostly Daddy’s baggage & your culture’s baggage that they repeatedly rammed into your head throughout that 13 years, K-12, of booooring indoctrination & future debt slave rating system designed to churn out compliant worker bees. The ’smarter’ cooperative ones go on to various levels of specialization training based on their profile & usually end up on a higher branch in the monkey tree with more rewards including a better mating selection, which, along with reducing as much gradient as we’re able to, appears to be our only purpose.
Thanks!
December 25th, 2024
apnea, eat shit stupid whore,
November 1st, 2025
Pleseeeee seeeeed! Thank you.
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