The confusion, I reckon, comes from my inability to step outside myself. I am not a perfect rationalist; I am trapped to an extent by the concepts taught to me since birth, just as I find myself uncomfortable with my gender identity due to growing up in an abusive household. It is difficult to step outside one’s own biases. So yes, my bias may be irreparable. As for “unfortunate”, the odds of it being an unfortunate bias are exactly the odds of Mormonism being true. If I believe the truth, then I am fortunate. It is the chance that my bias is unfortunate that drives me ever to refine my understanding, and never stop questioning my premises.
I’m just trying to ask to what extent you don’t resemble an optimal thinker in this particular way no human totally succeeds at, one possibility would be for you to deny that this human tendency is a flaw.
It’s not not a flaw. I’m just struggling to determine to what extent my belief in my religion is due to prior bias, and to what extent it’s due to rational thought.
The confusion, I reckon, comes from my inability to step outside myself. I am not a perfect rationalist; I am trapped to an extent by the concepts taught to me since birth, just as I find myself uncomfortable with my gender identity due to growing up in an abusive household. It is difficult to step outside one’s own biases. So yes, my bias may be irreparable. As for “unfortunate”, the odds of it being an unfortunate bias are exactly the odds of Mormonism being true. If I believe the truth, then I am fortunate. It is the chance that my bias is unfortunate that drives me ever to refine my understanding, and never stop questioning my premises.
It’s not not a flaw. I’m just struggling to determine to what extent my belief in my religion is due to prior bias, and to what extent it’s due to rational thought.