Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Beliefs


“To understand why a person believes as he or she does, one must understand why a person believes as he or she does, one must understand the person……Therefore, each person is presenting his subjective viewpoint rather than the objective “truth” about physical reality”
                                                                                                       ~ Protagoras 485-410 BC

 Our brains beliefs are a unique combination of our parent’s biology and our environment. We interpret the input from our environment which is guided by biological predispositions to make a model of "our" world.  
When we feel like our understanding of the world is successful at explaining these beliefs to our liking... we tend to attribute it to a non-biased, well discerned quest for the truth. We literally believe that we have constructed a worldview about the quality of reality and the absolute truth about reality.

The truth is... had we been born to different parents in a different country with a different culture, we could have easily come to a completely different understanding about the fundamental elements and concepts of belief.

Therefore, if two personally constructed worldviews or understandings accurately predict the same beliefs, one cannot be said to be more real than the other... rather... we are free to use whichever model is most comfortable to our own biology and to one’s cultural environment.
The truth is, when it comes to understanding the nature of reality in light of our hardwired biological tendencies and the views from our myopic environment, we are all ill-equipped to explain the absolute truth about reality.

                             “Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view.”

                                                                                                                   ~ Yoda