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Sara Lumbreras and Lluis Oviedo
There has been extensive work on understanding belief, from a psycho-
logical, philosophical and neurobiological perspective. Meanwhile, arti-
ficial intelligence has produced compelling developments that can enrich
and update the brain-as-a-computer metaphor and has tried to better
represent beliefs as cognitive probabilistic processes. In parallel, there has
been a surge of research in Complexity Sciences, with applications rang-
ing from Medicine to Finance. Some authors have already linked the con-
nected nature of belief to the behaviour of complex networks. We would like
to expand this approach to understand belief as a complex system with the
main functions of providing a model of the world – including the individual
and her surroundings – and producing guidelines for action. The complex-
system perspective allows us to understand some of the properties of belief
systems in a comprehensive manner, which many authors have begun to
study in isolation. Notably, this provides a framework to study the impor-
tant phenomena of belief formation and change as processes of emergence
and adaptation. In this exploratory paper, we propose an outline for this
framework for this study.
Belief networks as complex systems
LIMINA Grazer theologische Perspektiven | 3:2, 2020, 92–108 | www.limina-graz.eu | DOI: 10.25364/17.3:2020.2.5
ABSTRACT
Glaube wurde bereits vielfach aus psychologischer, philosophischer und neuro-
biologischer Perspektive untersucht. Inzwischen gab es im Bereich der künst-
lichen Intelligenz beeindruckende Fortschritte, die die metaphorische Bezeich-
nung des Gehirns als Computer aktuell und relevant erscheinen lassen und Ver-
suche nahelegen, Glaube als kognitiven probabilistischen Prozess darzustellen.
Gleichzeitig wurde die Komplexitätsforschung intensiviert, deren Anwendun-
gen von der Medizin bis zum Finanzbereich reichen. Einige AutorInnen stell-
ten bereits Zusammenhänge zwischen der Natur des Glaubens und dem Ver-
Limina
Grazer theologische Perspektiven, Volume 3:2
- Title
- Limina
- Subtitle
- Grazer theologische Perspektiven
- Volume
- 3:2
- Editor
- Karl Franzens University Graz
- Date
- 2020
- Language
- German
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Size
- 21.4 x 30.1 cm
- Pages
- 270
- Categories
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