I do think that we can hand the subject to mathematicians, biologists, chemists and physicists (though I think we should actually hand it to mathematicians, biologists and psychologists) and ask them to use their expertise and tools to arrive at a scientific opinion.
But that’s not what I said.
Faces and bodies are enough. And yes, they could calculate such a thing.
But that’s not what I said.
Perhaps because it’s irrelevant?
The two aren’t mutually exclusive. How you arrived at your beliefs is one thing and whether those beliefs are true (i.e. correspond to reality) is another thing.
As for this:
Opposing beliefs cannot be all true. Only one of them can. It’s logically impossible for two opposing beliefs to be both true.
So “John is more beautiful than Patrick” and “Patrick is more beautiful than John” cannot be both true. Only one of them can. It’s either/or. Unless, of course, they are actually mutually compatible statements and we’re misinterpreting them as being mutually incompatible.
And everyone thinks their beliefs are true until they find a reason to believe otherwise. And when they discover that some of their beliefs are false, what they do is they replace them with those they think are true.
This thread isn’t about me, so this is irrelevant.
You don’t need my permission.