I believe that I am awake, not dreaming, at this very moment. I believe that the people around me have minds, as I have. Nonreflective beliefs have a taken-for-granted quality that makes it somewhat silly (unless we're philosophers!) to state them plainly. Nonreflective beliefs are generated by a mental "toolkit," which operates, so to speak, in the backgrounds of our minds more or less continuously. Recall that Barrett divides beliefs into two categories: reflective and nonreflective. Barrett's arguments on this front in a bit more depth in this article. We saw how current research suggests that belief in God, or something like God, comes naturally to most human beings, most of the time, in virtue of the types of brains we have. In our last article, we explored some recent findings in the cognitive science of religion (CSR).
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