amorphous_constellation
Well-Known Member
It seems that faith' seems to be something that just happens in one's head, in the same way as a random or intended thought would. The moment you have faith in a god, or anything, doesn't seem to be markedly distinct as a brain based thinking activity, as would you were to think of a chair, or think of a fish, whether doing that was random or intended.
And so if you say, 'I believe in God,' with great enthusiasm, how is that neurologically different than if you were to say, 'I believe in the chair,' or 'I believe in the fish,' with great enthusiasm.
Sure, you might be vest the idea of God with special importance, and probably more importance than you would vest in your idea of the chair, or the fish. So then, faith might be a measure of importance - but in the same way that a thought is not physically visible, it doesn't seem like the measure of importance that any thought has, is physically very visible, or measurable.
An 'act of faith' can seem to be display the importance you have in your thoughts, but that still doesn't seem to show us what the literal importance of your thought was. You might of had a thought that god exists, but you might joined that thought with a separate thought about how important that is, which seems to mean that imagined the first thought to be important, with the second one. So then that begs the question, if any single thought has intrinsic importance
Or if in all instances, of thought, you must join an original thought with the importance that is imagined in separate thoughts, that are then joined to the original. Your education about what god is, doesn't occur in a vacuum. But all cases, it all seems to be just an exercise in brain activity
And so if you say, 'I believe in God,' with great enthusiasm, how is that neurologically different than if you were to say, 'I believe in the chair,' or 'I believe in the fish,' with great enthusiasm.
Sure, you might be vest the idea of God with special importance, and probably more importance than you would vest in your idea of the chair, or the fish. So then, faith might be a measure of importance - but in the same way that a thought is not physically visible, it doesn't seem like the measure of importance that any thought has, is physically very visible, or measurable.
An 'act of faith' can seem to be display the importance you have in your thoughts, but that still doesn't seem to show us what the literal importance of your thought was. You might of had a thought that god exists, but you might joined that thought with a separate thought about how important that is, which seems to mean that imagined the first thought to be important, with the second one. So then that begs the question, if any single thought has intrinsic importance
Or if in all instances, of thought, you must join an original thought with the importance that is imagined in separate thoughts, that are then joined to the original. Your education about what god is, doesn't occur in a vacuum. But all cases, it all seems to be just an exercise in brain activity