[extropy-chat] Faith or probability?

[Anne-Marie Taylor]

On Mon Jan 30 16:36:22 PST 2006 
  Eliezer S. Yudkowsky at http://singinst.org/ wrote:

  >I do indeed mean "faith" in the sense of "belief in the absence of 
>evidence", i.e., "drawing a line on your map without having seen 
>something that corresponds to the line, perhaps because you haven't 
>visited that part of the territory yet".  Not necessarily "faith" as 
  >belief contrary to evidence", i.e., "drawing a line on your map that 
>contradicts something you actually saw".  Either way you end up with a 
>lousy map.

  Then why are you drawing the line?  
  Physics, probability or reason?
  Curiosity, logic or truth?
  You felt something, you heard something, you remembered something?
  A map is a map.
  The only confusion is that you know where you are or you don't!
   
  Just an opinion and some questions:)
  Anna
   

		
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