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Hi Dorsetmike,
I can accept your thinking about the discussion in this thread because I once toyed with the same thoughts as you shared. But I can never let myself to just sit down and be quiet - I am extremely inquisitive by dint of character. Conversations run into trouble when they become dogmatic, ergo, not letting open questions remain open questions.
When open questions are closed, the process of inquiry ceases to exist, which is one of the reasons why the Roman Catholic Church got into so much trouble with its dogged insistence that the Earth was at the center(Geocentric), when in reality the Sun is at the center(Heliocentric). Copernicus faced so much fiery wrath for his discoveries and it wasn't until 1992 the Roman Church fully relented on its previous stance...Mind you, Copernicus was Polish and Pope Karol Woytila(John Paul II) was Polish so it took a Pole to exonerate a Pole ; -D
And now for the next inclusion:
Because if this belief — this structure — had a totally different content (even, say, if it was a belief that there is no beer in the fridge) but had the same neurophysiological properties, it would still have caused that same action of going to the fridge. This means that the content of the belief isn’t a cause of the behavior. As far as causing the behavior goes, the content of the belief doesn’t matter.
I can accept your thinking about the discussion in this thread because I once toyed with the same thoughts as you shared. But I can never let myself to just sit down and be quiet - I am extremely inquisitive by dint of character. Conversations run into trouble when they become dogmatic, ergo, not letting open questions remain open questions.
When open questions are closed, the process of inquiry ceases to exist, which is one of the reasons why the Roman Catholic Church got into so much trouble with its dogged insistence that the Earth was at the center(Geocentric), when in reality the Sun is at the center(Heliocentric). Copernicus faced so much fiery wrath for his discoveries and it wasn't until 1992 the Roman Church fully relented on its previous stance...Mind you, Copernicus was Polish and Pope Karol Woytila(John Paul II) was Polish so it took a Pole to exonerate a Pole ; -D
And now for the next inclusion:
Because if this belief — this structure — had a totally different content (even, say, if it was a belief that there is no beer in the fridge) but had the same neurophysiological properties, it would still have caused that same action of going to the fridge. This means that the content of the belief isn’t a cause of the behavior. As far as causing the behavior goes, the content of the belief doesn’t matter.