Challenge the assumptions behind the system from WITHIN which you are working. It’s helpful, even if later you decide to return back to it.
Cognitively, Reason is simply moving from Certainty to Certainty, a feeling of certainty about Truthness to a feeling of certainty about another Truthness, to another feeling of certainty about Falseness, etc.
Yes. But none of those choices of belief necessitate their being correct. That hinges upon other beliefs, which hinge upon other beliefs.
If something simply “is”, how could there be argument about it? One chooses beliefs via acceptance.
Ah, the rock. I believe reality is real. it is a belief. Pain is a subjective response which takes place within the same nervous system within which other actions of the nervous system, such as thought take place.
Did you know that emotional pain registers in the brain in the same places as physical pain? [yes, I chose to believe the cogsci, it could well be false, but such is my choice].
The emotion of “broken heart” registers the same pain as a physical heart attach. it *is* real pain. The correspondence to other things occuring in the body is, perhaps more than happenstance, yet not required.
I have a friend with severe type 1 diabetes. He experiences pain differently. If I am on morphine, I experience pain differently or not at all.
Subjective. Not objective. Pain management is one of the toughest fields because of the subjectivity of the experience.
The “kick rock pain” argument should disappear from textbooks in light of modern cogsci. Then again, cogsci will try to dismantle most any brain related things anyway tongue emoticon