Hmm. This is the machinery of compartmentalization at play—you can get evidence against belief X and update on it while still maintaining belief X in full force. I’m not sure I can articulate how it’s done. It’s just… the beliefs live in separate magisteria, you see.
This is hard to explain in part because preventing the compartment from updating is not an act of will, it’s an act of omission. You build this wall between your belief systems, and then updates no longer propagate across the wall unless you force them to. To prevent compartment updates, you simply don’t force the compartment to update.
This may sound difficult, but I find that in practice it’s so easy it’s scary. This may differ from person to person, and I wouldn’t be surprised if many people find my methods difficult.
I wouldn’t be surprised if not everybody could do this at all. Could be typical mind fallacy to assume such. Human minds differ quite a lot. Just think about
visual vs. metaphorical ‘imagination’
weight on abstract/sybolic vs. on concrete/fuzzy reasoning.
That sounds plausible.
It is not clear how to do this.
Hmm. This is the machinery of compartmentalization at play—you can get evidence against belief X and update on it while still maintaining belief X in full force. I’m not sure I can articulate how it’s done. It’s just… the beliefs live in separate magisteria, you see.
This is hard to explain in part because preventing the compartment from updating is not an act of will, it’s an act of omission. You build this wall between your belief systems, and then updates no longer propagate across the wall unless you force them to. To prevent compartment updates, you simply don’t force the compartment to update.
This may sound difficult, but I find that in practice it’s so easy it’s scary. This may differ from person to person, and I wouldn’t be surprised if many people find my methods difficult.
I wouldn’t be surprised if not everybody could do this at all. Could be typical mind fallacy to assume such. Human minds differ quite a lot. Just think about
visual vs. metaphorical ‘imagination’
weight on abstract/sybolic vs. on concrete/fuzzy reasoning.
eidetic memory or not
synaestesis or not