At the time I first read those words, I also agreed with the strangeness of the idea. Now years later I'm touch with my body well enough to completely understand why it makes sense to speak that way. I'm not anymore blind. Even on a bad day I can tell apart midriff/stomach, heart and head. I also know people with better kinesthetic perception than myself.
I would say that this is probably a result of different emotions being associated with certain physiological responses. The body reacts to what's going on in the brain, and the brain gets further feedback from that.
I recognize the responses from various parts of my body when I think, but that doesn't mean that other parts of my body are doing the thinking for me, or that imagining they are would result in my making better decisions.
When it comes to return hard questions, why do you think that human have beliefs? The concept doesn't seem straightforward enough that it was around in Homers days. Do you think dogs have them? Doves? Ants? Caenorhabditis elegans?
Bonus question, when do you think that humans started "believing" in beliefs?
Could you make clearer what you mean by beliefs, or what it means to "believe" in beliefs? As-is, the questions seem too vague to adequately answer.
Could you make clearer what you mean by beliefs, or what it means to "believe" in beliefs? As-is, the questions seem too vague to adequately answer.
In Homer's time there was no concept of beliefs. In this discussion there the notion that people who listen to their hearts somehow develop the wrong beliefs and that's bad.
So whatever Penn Jillette means when he says "believe". In case you think that's no coherent concept, that would also be an answer that I would accept.
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