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RE: You do not "choose" your beliefs. You are (EITHER) CONVINCED (OR) UNCONVINCED.
Are you suggesting that before age 2, you thought water was simply imaginary?
Are you suggesting that before age 2, you thought water was simply imaginary?
My thoughts are not always beliefs. There are differences between intellectual thought and choices from the soul.
People can be convinced by intuition or by emotion or by logic. Often subconscious conviction is stronger than conscious conviction.
Agreed, that subconscious conviction is generally the driving force of anthropology, psychology, sociology, intuition, emotionalism, our instincts, individualism, to how we react in situations, in what people do, generally speaking, historically, on average, most of the time by default to some extent.
If conviction means belief, which is the seed of choices, then I agree.
A Conviction is something you've been CONVINCED of.
If being convinced excludes choices, then I disagree because I believe in freewill. No choice means we are only animals governed by instinct, by reflect, by mere reaction that cannot be altered by our own will.
You can still believe in freewill.
You can choose to say certain things and you can choose to do certain things.
But you can't choose to BELIEVE in something you're not CONVINCED of.
You can only choose to SAY you believe.
How can I say what I do not believe? What is the point of believing if believing is not the seed to choices, to what I choose to say? I have no idea what belief means to you if people can do things that are separate from their beliefs. If there is a separation, then belief is then therefore inflated towards having no purpose if it in fact does nothing.
In the same way, your choices are based on your DESIRES.
And you don't "choose" your DESIRES.
You can choose to pursue your DESIRES and you can choose to repress your DESIRES.
But you can't choose to desire something you find repulsive and you can't choose to stop desiring something you find seductive.