Imagine you would see a fact that contradict your deepest believes, the core of who you are. This fact is uncontestable, is evidence in its purest form, is something that happened and you know with 100% certainty that it happened. But this fact also is against what define you as a person, your most profound thoughts. Either political, religious , philosophical or moral believes, whatever sits deepetin you.
Do you think this evidence would make you change your mind, or not?
The proven truth will always change my mind. I guess I’m pro-science.
I wouldn’t have the beliefs I do today if I was incapable of being persuaded by logic, facts, and statistics.
Yup, had that happen to my a bit just last week … and it’s almost painful to change one’s beliefs, but for me there’s no way out of it.
Definitely got the dog in me, I think I can get matic too.
Again? I’d just give up having values at this point and become even more absurdist I guess
You’ll be surprised when you find out how much cognitive dissonance people can tolerate.
I don’t have any beliefs that define me as a person and don’t really have any deepest believes. I grew up in the south for almost 30 years, moved to the west coast for five, then over to the east coast for another 20. Politics, religion, philosophy, and morality are all a sliding scale depending on what and how much is around you. Things are what they are where you are. The farther you expand your circle, the more room you have for new viewpoints. People everywhere are amazing and kind, people everywhere are boring and shitty. You’ve gotta keep your mouth shut and your mind open until you get the lay of the land. Then you find your family and grow together.
Still, I’d rather be dogmatic than catmatic.
I don’t need beliefs that inflexible.
I would hope so, but you’re laying it on pretty thick with this hypothetical scenario. Makes it hard to imagine.
Like some hypothetical fact that killing folks is good. Nope. would not change my mind.
Only about belief (from cosmology to ethics), not material reality. And yes, they’re two fields that don’t simply cannot mix, but the latter can lead to/point towards the former.
No, evidence changes my opinions all the time.
I can’t really think of many deepest beliefs that could even be contradicted. The core of who I am isn’t really to have strong opinions on something, but instead to be chill and touch grass from time to time.
I’ve changed before, I could probably do it again.
Sometimes.
So I work hard to not be.
To the rest of the question, we all struggle with data that conflicts with our paradigm, what we think we know.
It’s not easy to try to integrate new information that conflicts with strongly founded views.
