topic: [[Learning]] created: 2023-04-23 *I believe because my group believes or because my soul believes.* This reminds me of [[ways of knowing]], knowing and believing are similar and are created similarly in our minds in [[Constructivism]] It's kind of like [[Listening to Understand]], what's behind the believing Believing is an idea from [[Conspiracy]] that people aren't rational, their beliefs develop as a representation of how they see the world and where they fit in it. ##### What would the opposite argument be? We investigate the world like scientists through the [[scientific process]]. tags: #note/statement | #on/believing | #on/belonging ##### Sources: Shermer, M. (2022). _Conspiracy: Why the rational believe the irrational_. Johns Hopkins University Press.