I don’t know if you’re intentionally recapitulating this line of argument, but C.S. Lewis makes this argument in Miracles. There’s a long history of the back and forth on wikipedia
I don’t think it works, mostly because the fact that a belief is result of a physical process doesn’t tell my anything at all about the rationality / irrationality of belief. Different physical processes should be judged differently; some are entangled with the resulting state of belief and others aren’t.
Not intentional, but didn’t expect it to be a novel argument either. I suspect everyone has thought about it sometime during their life, likely while learning physics in secondary school. I just think “cognitive instability” is a nice handle for the discussion.
I don’t know if you’re intentionally recapitulating this line of argument, but C.S. Lewis makes this argument in Miracles. There’s a long history of the back and forth on wikipedia
I don’t think it works, mostly because the fact that a belief is result of a physical process doesn’t tell my anything at all about the rationality / irrationality of belief. Different physical processes should be judged differently; some are entangled with the resulting state of belief and others aren’t.
Not intentional, but didn’t expect it to be a novel argument either. I suspect everyone has thought about it sometime during their life, likely while learning physics in secondary school. I just think “cognitive instability” is a nice handle for the discussion.