Victoria writes: "So any belief other than one's own is a delusion?"
Subjective experience must run counter to objective evidence to get this label. A belief that can be represented by a set of features, understandable by independent observers in a repeatable way is not a delusion. If someone wants to bind a name like Seraphim to such a set of features, they may, provided the other observers agree that name is not confused with other useful names. But if no features are described in detail, there is no way to tabulate evidence or cross-check the tabulations. Faith creates names for things, and constraints amongst things which either can't be grounded in evidence or must endure being mistaken. One way to endure is by recruiting more people to have affinity for those ungrounded names and constraints. Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
