You hear an explanation of something almost everyday. What do you do? First of all, you consider it mostly on the surface of the brain. Some new input, as it were. Then comes the decision. You can Understand what was explained Believe what was explained Accept what was explained. These three key words, understand, believe, and accept comprise a gross summary. But they typify three principles by which the brain or mind holds explanations. There are variations, exceptions, and exclusions. Just one is important now, and that is you may take the explanation as an example of several others in your mind, none of which have any of the attributes. It sort of sits there awaiting further processing. Before getting to the picayune details, note that understand, believe, and accept are mostly exclusive, meaning one does not imply the other. For example, you may accept global warming into the future, but neither understand nor believe it. Similarly, you ma
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