BELIEF AND EVIDENCE

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Date: 3/22/25
Person: Payton Pearson
Video type: video essay
Video topic: Belief and evidence

ORIGINAL ESSAY (BEFORE ADDENDUM):

A belief is a lifelong hypothesis for which you are trying to find evidence. It requires, in a sense, a type of cognitive dissonance, where one must hold within their minds oftentimes conflicting information, accepting all theories as potentially possible, but none as of yet having been fully proven to yourself. On the societal level, proof requires evidence. On the individual level, proof is accepting acquired information as evidence. A belief can never be universalized if acquired evidence is not accepted as evidence amongst the entire population vis-a-vis axiom and definition; this is to say, as a result, any individual's belief will always be relegated to the realm of belief, as any attempt at universalization is futile beyond one very important fact: respect of the free will.

If one's belief structure is tolerant, which is to say it respects the free will, it can be integrated into societal norms as one story in human history. Using a lowest common denominator approach, truth will be discovered, and that truth is belief accepted by all.

One way or another, whether free will exists or not (and I "believe" it does), we, in human society, act as if it does. So to us, it does, which means it does. Belief universalized. Evidence is provided, but what are you willing to accept as evidence? The determinist does not accept the evidence provided thus far. The evidence is belief.