It sounds like you’ve discovered something new (rationality) and it has dissolved your previously felt cognitive dissonance regarding your belief. The dissolving of cognitive dissonance feels like it is confirming the side that you end up on, even though the actual evidence is sketchy at best.
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Corrections to my previous comments:
1. Where I said:
method for choosing a prior
I should have said “method for calculating a likelihood”
2. I talk about my belief in Christianity being on a scale but this is unhelpful because of the issues discussed in No, really, I’ve deceived myself. I should have talked about “How likely I though it was that Christianity was true” being measured on a scale. This sounds the same but means I actually assessed the truth of the statement, not just my level of belief.
I’ll rephrase:
It sounds like you’ve discovered something new (rationality) and it has dissolved your previously felt cognitive dissonance regarding your belief. The dissolving of cognitive dissonance feels like it is confirming the side that you end up on, even though the actual evidence is sketchy at best.
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Corrections to my previous comments:
1. Where I said:
I should have said “method for calculating a likelihood”
2. I talk about my belief in Christianity being on a scale but this is unhelpful because of the issues discussed in No, really, I’ve deceived myself. I should have talked about “How likely I though it was that Christianity was true” being measured on a scale. This sounds the same but means I actually assessed the truth of the statement, not just my level of belief.