A Snapshot of My Belief Structure

Essay 10: Importance If you have a good memory, you may remember how I mentioned at some point that a state-of-things that is incompatible with our needs can be defined as a problem . If you do, you likely also remember how I further built upon this point; when a problem occurs, this incompatibility leads to a deprivation of the affected needs . In essay 1, I mentioned that this deprivation results in urges , which is the fuel that powers the attention needed to solve the problem that has taken center stage. This process is my phenomenological accounting for why it is we act at all and will continue to be a central precondition to a lot of my writing from here on out. One such example of this being a precondition is this essay, where I discuss an implication of this model. If urges can come about due to a shift in our state-of-things to one that is less compatible with our needs , then what determines whether the state-of-things is incompatible? The answer to that question is ...

Essay 9: Belief At long last, we finally tackle the namesake of this series, belief , or to go a step further, belief structures . It may seem like we went through a lot of pretext to get to this point, but we are still less than halfway through the first of three books. That being said, the point of this paragraph is not to make you dread the long journey ahead; it is to connect the topic of this essay to the purpose of this book, but in this case, it is almost self-explanatory. If we are trying to create a phenomenological framework to encompass what all humans share experientially, what could possibly be more universal than belief ? We all believe in a lot, we have to. If we could not assert the truth (or at least the “good enough until something proves otherwise”-ness) of something we are intellectually aware of, how could we do anything? Let alone read this essay. Belief (not bolded) is defined by Merriam-Webster as “something that is accepted, considered to be true, or held as ...