We could go door to door spreading our disbelief. But we generally hate proselytizers.

Some people are, it's called antitheism. I confess when I was an edgy 16yo I was like that, but I had just left a religious cult so don't judge me too harshly.

Something about being careful what you wish for.

I think by cornerstone, they are referencing that beliefs are assumptions that form one’s model of the world.

You think by logically building on assumptions. “I remember putting leftovers in the fridge last night, so I don’t need to make dinner tonight” You assume your memories are accurate (or accurate enough) and then build on other things you “know” to construct every thought.

Sights, sounds, and vibes are a different story. They are called qualia and the raw experience of them cannot be described.

Think of qualia like the raw data you collect from an experiment. Your worldview is the scientific model you’ve built to describe this data and it rests on both fundamental logic and the beliefs/theories you currently believe in.

Unfortunately people don’t like having to change their worldview. And when you’ve held a belief for long enough, it becomes foundational to many of your other assumptions. Some people would rather say reality is wrong than change their beliefs.

The word for a belief that cannot be changed via evidence is called a “delusion” in case you ever want to piss off a religious person who says “nothing can shake my faith” like it’s a good thing.

Sounds like the idea of "belief" is just being accepted as a religious or spiritual idea. Beliefs are the cornerstone because it's a tool we use every single day.

At the center of how we think is the fundamental idea of The Way Things Work and that comes down to how we believe the physical things around us will act and react. Just about everyone will start making a choice by comparing what we know to be real or true for ourselves and the things around us.

That cornerstone of belief is what we use to define "real and true". Ghosts or spirits are absolutely real and true for some people while others don't see the same evidence.

Beliefs get the special treatment because we are a collection of our experiences and each one of us has a different way of understanding how things work.

Sure, but don’t even ask about my ligma

Whatever the case, just make sure you keep your catma inside so it doesn't get run over by your karma.

Maybe we value the wrong things. Maybe greed is a lack perspective, too much isn't enough. Kind of like people who lived during the Great Depression or had parents who insisted no penny would be spent on bubble gum.

You are lumping together sensory signals (feelings, sights, sounds) with the internal decision making of your brain (beliefs).

I think you are confused by the literal definition of belief, because as it is defined, a belief is anything you think is true, specially without literal proof. There's tons of stuff we believe are true without certain proof: math, science, memory to a certain extent...

Let me explain, not everyone is a mathematician, not everyone is a scientist, especially an absolute expert in every field. What people usually do is they it trust in people that are experts and they believe that what those say is true because they have proven it to another collection of authorities, and we believe that what those authorities are trustworthy because X. There's papers about it and I can looks them, but I and most people probably won't because I decided to believe in their words. That core belief on science, on the fact that the science as we know it is correct (which is again dependant on the interpretation of the universe we currently hold being true which we don't know...), is something people don't offer recognise as a belief, but it is.

What you believe to be true will affect how you process what you see, what you hear, and how you ultimately act.

It's important because it's the deciding factor of almost every actions you consciously take.

Let me say that I'm not, in no way shape or form, saying belief in a religious tone. I'm using the literal definition of belief of the dictionary.

For reference because I won't probably return to this comment, they way I see beliefs is similar to the philosopher Ortega y Gasset.

There's something to be said for practicing detachment, too. Or rather the impermanence of things.

The word for established assumptions is “axioms”

Definitions are kind of the most fundamental axioms. Abstracting things helps us build with them and they’re true because you say they are.

We use axioms in models to derive new theorems/information. But that is often what makes us resist changing them. If you build your other assumptions on an axiom, you have to rethink all those assumptions or even throw them out when it gets proven wrong.

However, attachment to a belief, holding to an assumption even when it’s been proven wrong, is called “delusion” and yeah those beliefs tend to be the most destructive

Yes. And also explains why worldviews are so different between cultural, linguistical and geographically different groups of people.

Even though we're becoming more and more unified, through the internet, through logic systems like maths or science in general. This is not to be mistaken for truth. Western scientific ideology specifically has as unspoken 'truth' that when ideas 'win', they are more valuable. While English, our logical rules, our ideologies are winning not because they are true but because they are believed more, or over, other languages, logic systems and ideologies.

Ofcourse these systems of beliefs create opportunities and knowledge for people. Don't mistake my dismissal of truth for disaproval.

In the wrong community

Defensive? Now who's stooping to insults because someone doesn't believe in your belief?

You definitely assumed that the message you typed could be understood by a random stranger and be delivered through a series of wires and rocks that can think, and possibly sent over magical waves which cannot be seen. Maybe it's all just your or my imagination.