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Mr.Nobody, you cannot truly believe in a divine spirit until you experience it and how can you experience it until you have some belief that it does in fact exist
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So, in order to perceive something I have to belief in it first?
That is not how reality works. Perceptions first, explanations next, interpretations, conjecture and exterpolations last.
What you propose is akin to religion, a belief in something first and then a search to find proof to support this something
"A world, a reality existing independantly of what can be said about it, is void of any meaning. It is obvious that any property or feature of reality "out there" can only be based on information we receive. There can not be any statement whatsoever about the world or about reality that is not based on such information. It therefore follows that the concept of a reality without at least the ability in principle to make statements about it, to obtain information about its features is devoid of any possibility of confirmation or proof. This implies that the distinction between information, that is knowledge, and reality is devoid of any meaning. In other words, it is impossible to distinguish operationally in any way reality from information. Therefore, following Occam's razor, the notion of the two being distinct should be abandoned, as the assumption of the existence of such a difference does not add anything that could not also be obtained without it"