I get picked on sometimes for using wikipedia so I'll try this instead:
Belief (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
https://plato.stanford.edu › entries › belief
In one way of speaking, the belief just is the fact or proposition represented, or the particular stored token of that fact or proposition; in another way of speaking, the more standard in philosophical discussion,
the belief is the state of having such a fact or representation stored.
Kinda like memory on your hard drive.
The Bible states a "fact" . In the beginning God. There is no question it's a statement.
I can believe that statement to be true or false.
Once I declare that that statement is true or false to myself, it then becomes stored in my brains memory under the catagory "Belief" .
This Catagory has a lot of folders filled with different true and false statements.
And it is up to each individual to perform a scan disk for errors that might be found or to add new data as it is made available.
To say that one believes is to affirm that fact to oneself or to another.
If I say, I believe God is. Then what I am technically saying is God is my fact, and this fact is my truth.
And this truth is stored in my human computer made up of heart and mind, and the device which contains them is my body or soul.
My eyes are my monitor, my mouth and ears are the speaker and mic.
I mean if you want to get technical.
Somebody wrote the operating system. And I affirm to myself and to others, that it is God that wrote it.
I don't need to "believe" it, even though it is stored in the "belief" file. I know it, but I communicate it with the term believe.
And humans aren't like plastic and metal that have no feelings and compassion. So our emotions are what drives the communication we are trying to transmit. She sounds happy, he sounds sad, she said it with empathy, he said it with authority.
There is no "tone" that emits from a device that hasn't first been installed by the one who created the system.
But there can be "viruses" downloaded that corrupt the files. These viruses can only come from outside sources.
No operating system was ever created that created it's own virus. Someone or something had to put it there at a later time.
These "viruses" can be doubt, hate, anger, self denial, or even self-destruct.
The question one could ask themselves is: Who am I and how was my operating system created?
That's one advantage humans have over computers, self identity.
I don't even know if Artificial Intelligence is capable of that... yet.
I don't have a file with a folder for that, so it goes in the "I don't know" catagory.
And every human has at least one of them.
(I'm not a techy, I don't write computer programs or build hardware, so all references to these are purely speculative with the understanding or lack of, that's in my files)
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