I like the example of the Apollo mission. But I think an even more direct parallel to faith as surrender is EY’s definition of lightness in Twelve Virtues of Rationality—LessWrong:
The third virtue is lightness. Let the winds of evidence blow you about as though you are a leaf, with no direction of your own.
If you are strongly committed to one belief, and then find evidence to the contrary, and actually change your mind—then you’ve just surrendered to the superiority of something outside yourself.
Perhaps changing your mind doesn’t provoke the same mystical experience that you see expressed in Leonard Cohen’s lyrics or Kierkegaard’s “leap of faith”? But EY’s post feels equally mystical to me.
I like the example of the Apollo mission. But I think an even more direct parallel to faith as surrender is EY’s definition of lightness in Twelve Virtues of Rationality—LessWrong:
If you are strongly committed to one belief, and then find evidence to the contrary, and actually change your mind—then you’ve just surrendered to the superiority of something outside yourself.
Perhaps changing your mind doesn’t provoke the same mystical experience that you see expressed in Leonard Cohen’s lyrics or Kierkegaard’s “leap of faith”? But EY’s post feels equally mystical to me.