Can You Control Your Own Beliefs? — Munthe on Stewart-Williams

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" Provenance: heard about Stewart-Williams through Chris Williamson — which checks out (Stewart-Williams was MW #786, May 2024; recorded a second Austin taping in late 2025/early 2026).

Munthe's frame has a selection-problem gap he doesn't fully close. He documents that beliefs are shaped by environment + genes.

The user's "interesting read" share, on this surface, is a recognition gesture — the article is a posture piece (the intellectual-independence frame), and the user already operates inside that frame (the Preferences As Proxies For Capability page is the same…

" We can control our beliefs (we are "hardwired not to be hardwired"), but we are predisposed to many of them. Understanding these unconscious influences is the first step toward intellectual independence.

How it's structured

  1. Context User shared Steve Stewart-Williams' Substack newsletter post Can You Control Your Own Beliefs? (a…
  2. The article's thesis (Munthe) > "Only if you know how your beliefs control you."

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