Swimmer963 comments on Positive Thinking - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Swimmer963 07 March 2011 01:03AM

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Comment author: Swimmer963 23 March 2011 07:13:42PM 0 points [-]

Maybe. I've asked them, though, and they don't seem to find it a serious problem. They find ways to get around it...I could quote examples if I remembered the vocabulary better. In fact, a number of people seemed confused when I tried to explain my inability to believe.

Comment author: Arelius 23 March 2011 08:15:20PM 1 point [-]

a number of people seemed confused when I tried to explain my inability to believe.

Maybe this is key to the problem, such that they are able to build such a strong mental block between those two aspects of the brain so that the concept of the conflict of belief is actively rejected.

Comment author: Swimmer963 23 March 2011 08:21:36PM 0 points [-]

A strong mental block. Interesting. Plausible...