What if beliefs could be surgically inserted into a patient’s brain?
Daniel Dennett: How Does the Brain Store Beliefs?. This is the basis of one of philosopher Daniel Dennett’s thought experiments in exploration of how the brain represents beliefs. Dennett argues that individual beliefs are part of broader idea systems and that they couldn’t possibly be stored like a library of belief sentences. Source:Â Big Think
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