Thread:User talk:Nebuchadnezzar/Neurology: belief v knowledge/reply

Heh, now there's a question with an answer that's not going to fit into a talk page post. Sam Harris did an interesting experiment on this, believe it or not. The findings show considerable overlap. However, my nitpick on this is that not all the questions are listed, so it doesn't get into finer-grain detail about how the propositional content may be processed by different memory systems. Anyway, when you talk about an "I believe this to be true" response, though, what you're dealing with is called "feeling-of-knowing" (FoK), which is part of. Robert Burton's On Being Certain is a really great (and short) read on FoK research from a neuroscience angle. (Or you can just watch his Google Lecture.) I also spruced up the belief and knowledge pages recently which may have some more research that may be of interest. It's a pretty complex question, really.