A Slice of Infinity (October 20th, 2006)

Today's Slice of Infinity (A Reasonable Belief) by Jill Carattini is exceptionally good!

Here is an excerpt - "If belief is the readiness to act as if something is true, it follows that unbelief, whether chosen consciously or unconsciously, still affects our behavior. There are consequences to our non-answers in the same way that there are consequences to our answers. And yet, in our society where skepticism is almost encouraged, belief and unbelief are treated quite differently. We do not feel compelled to justify our disbelief in the same way we feel compelled to justify our belief. We expect a certain reasonableness about belief that we don't expect of disbelief, in part because we've been conditioned to see skepticism and disbelief as logical, and belief as emotional or irrational."