Why AI is Smarter Than Believers (Psychology of Believing vs Knowing)

Question. Why does it seem like the people who do the most praying also do the most struggling? In this video, I want to show you why your struggle might not be a test of faith, but a sign that something's been left out. Here's a stat you probably never heard in church. Nearly 90% of religious believers are guided by faith and tradition, while only about 10% ever stop to verify what they believe through real research and study. Meanwhile, most world leaders, despite their public appearances, rely on knowledge, strategy, and data, with about 60-70% of their decisions driven by what works, not just by what feels right. So today, I'm breaking down the dangerous gap between belief and knowledge, and the deeper details of why one leads to struggle and one sets you free. Understanding the difference between believing and knowing is foundational, not just in philosophy and science, but in our everyday decision-making as well. So what exactly is a belief? A belief is a mental attitude that something is true or exists, even if it's not supported by direct evidence or certainty. It's subjective and often shaped by faith, trust, hearsay, tradition, culture, or personal experience. For example, I believe there's a giant ancient sea creature living deep in Loch Ness, and it's managed to stay hidden from the world all this time. Whereas knowledge, it can be described as a justified truth. To know something usually means, first, you believe it, two, it is true, and three, you have justification or evidence for it. For example, I know that water is wet, so to sum it all up, belief is the starting point, knowledge is the goal. Most human understanding begins as belief. Over time, as we test, question, and gain evidence, some beliefs mature into knowledge or get discarded. Emotionally charged beliefs are the ones that often tend to masquerade as knowledge. Knowing is more humbling than believing. A person who knows is aware of why and how they know. A person who merely believes can be confident without ever questioning the foundation of that belief, and belief without examination can be dangerous. Jonestown Massacre in 78, Heaven's Gate cult in 1997, and even the average citizen was born into a cult called America because belief systems that we adopt without examination comes from us via our culture as well, and they also can exist within political movements and religious groups. Some examples that many of you probably can relate to even more, Manifest Destiny, the idea that a certain group is superior to everyone else. Capitalism itself is just an ideology or belief. This will sum up the core differences between belief and knowledge. When it comes to belief, it doesn't necessarily require evidence versus knowledge. You must have evidence to justify it. A belief may or may not be true, but knowledge must be true. A belief can be uncertain. Knowledge requires a higher degree of certainty. Belief is highly subjective, while knowledge leans more toward objectivity. Let's talk about changeability. Beliefs easily change, and they are easily influenced, and I can give you a good example of this. What happened to gospel rap? It has morphed into something that sounds so secular you can't even tell it apart from regular worldly rap, and not to mention they're even twerking in the church now. So yeah, belief systems are easily influenced. They change all the time. They tweak themselves for trends and popular events and etc. Whereas when it comes to knowledge, no matter how many changes may come on the earth, no matter how many trends may come and go, knowledge will remain the same. Two plus two will still be four. Understanding the process of gaining knowledge versus gaining a belief reveals a lot about how we form our worldviews and why people can see the same things so differently. We'll break them both down side by side. The process of gaining a belief starts with exposure. You hear or encounter an idea from a person, group, text, culture, or experience. For example, my grandma said a black cat crossing your path is bad luck. The second part of gaining a belief is acceptance, and this is often done without critical thinking. What it was you was just exposed to, and basically acceptance can be summed up in one sentence. If the idea feels familiar, comfortable, authoritative, or emotionally satisfying, you may accept it without rigorous questioning. For example, it feels true and she wouldn't lie to me. That's what a lot of people will say when they accept beliefs that come from their grandmother or from their mother. Sometimes something may not be true, but it can feel true, and if it's coming from someone important that holds status in your life, that'll give it more authority. So instead of critical thinking it, most people will just say, why would my grandmother lie to me? And oftentimes it ain't that they lied to you, it's just that they didn't have all the answers as well. The third part of gaining a belief is called internalization. You now hold it as your own belief, even if it's never been tested or verified. For example, I believe black cats crossing your path bring bad luck, and now you start to perpetuate and pass on the belief. And gaining beliefs is often fast, emotionally or socially driven, based on authority, repetition, or personal experience, which is often unverified or loosely justified. It is also difficult to shape, especially if it ties into your identity or your tribe. So let's talk about the process of gaining knowledge. The first process of gaining knowledge, it starts with inquiry. You ask a question or encounter a claim, often sparked by curiosity, doubt, or problem solving. For example, do black cats really bring bad luck? Then the second part is investigation. Knowledge is something that's been tested again and again and again. It's been challenged over and over, and it still holds up. For example, if I say water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit at sea level, it's a truth, not a belief, because others have tested this over and over and come to the same conclusion. This would be different than a person that says, I was abducted by aliens. It is a belief, not a fact, because others haven't been abducted by aliens. This isn't a normal phenomenon, so we can't deem something a fact if all of us can't test it and have the same conclusion. And this goes for religious people that say, God told me to tell you this, or a person that has a revelation from some entity that no one else has. We should all be able to test it. And if we can't verify it or test it, then we can't adopt it as knowledge, which is the fifth step of this process. You accept the claim not just as a belief, but as something you can defend with reason or evidence. For example, I know that black cats crossing my path won't bring me bad luck. Why? Because I did an experiment where I put 20 people on a sidewalk, and I let each one walk past the path of the black cat. And then we let another group of 20 people walk down that same sidewalk without the black cat. So the latter group is our control, and the first group is our variable. And we'll monitor everyone's lives for the next six months. And we'll see who have the most success and who have the most misfortune. What if, just what if, the tests show that the people who walked down the sidewalk without the black cat had most misfortune, and that the people who walked down the sidewalk with the black cat that had crossed the path actually were most successful? Well, we can conclude with that, that a black cat crossing your path does not cause bad luck. And the reason or the evidence that would allow us to adopt that as knowledge is the statistics and the data that we gather from our research, from our experiment. Most of our beliefs that we hold dearly to, we didn't take them through that process. We just defend them with typical questions like, why would they lie to me? Or other things we may tell ourselves to avoid proving or disproving our beliefs. But when it comes to the process of gaining knowledge, gaining knowledge is much more slower than gaining beliefs. It's also evidence-based, open to revision if better information comes, rooted in logic, science, or firsthand verification. And it's often harder to accept emotionally, but it's more reliable. So my take is that people gain beliefs passively, but they gain knowledge actively. Belief can feel easier, safer, or more communal, but is also more vulnerable to manipulation. Knowledge requires intellectual labor and emotional humility, but is more resilient, empowering, and independent. What triggers a belief versus what triggers knowledge? Trust, emotion, tradition, and simply exposure are the main triggers of a belief. Whereas what triggers knowledge is curiosity, doubt, inquiry. All that leads a person to investigate, to go on a quest. So what is the method that a person uses to acquire belief versus acquiring knowledge? To acquire belief, it only takes acceptance or repetition or acceptance through repetition. You hear something long enough, and we call it a truth or a fact. For example, what you don't know won't hurt you. Everybody should know that is a lie. But we've said it for so long and for so many years, it just sounds true. And some people will even defend it. But if you don't know that there's a cliff edge ahead, that will definitely hurt you. So when it comes to the method of accepting belief, we accept it oftentimes through repetition. Whereas knowledge, we accept knowledge through observation, testing, and justification. How do we verify a belief versus verify knowledge? First of all, beliefs are rarely tested, if at all. So there is no verification for belief. Whereas knowledge is often rigorously tested. Beliefs have a very high resistance to change. Whereas knowledge is moderate and is open to revision. So when it comes to the truth standard, belief is just perceived truth or emotional truth, if that's even a thing. Whereas knowledge is objective or intersubjective truth. I know many of you probably have heard someone say, we're living in a time of smartphones and dumb people. There's a lot of truth to that. And in this section, I want to talk about why AI is smarter than most of us. And it shouldn't be. Earlier, we broke down a difference between belief and knowledge. But here's where it gets kind of wild. You see, the process of gaining knowledge requires effort, asking questions, verifying facts, cross-checking sources, and admitting when you're wrong. Belief, on the other hand, is easy. It feels good. You hear something from someone you trust. It aligns with your emotions or community. And boom, you adopt it as truth. No testing, no research. Now ask yourself, which process do most humans use daily? Most people don't think critically. They outsource reasoning to a preacher, a politician, or a content creator. And now to artificial intelligence. And that's the problem. AI doesn't believe anything. It follows the actual process of acquiring knowledge. It questions input. It analyzes patterns. It cross-references sources. It generates logic-based conclusions. So we now live in a world where machines reason better than the masses because machines mimic the process of gaining knowledge and most people were never trained to. Now let me add in a little disclaimer. Not all AI is created equally. The AI I'm referring to here, I'm assuming, is very advanced. But just think about what my point is here. The average person feels something and calls it truth. The machine processes something and finds truth. Also another crazy thing about this is that most of the people in the world have some sort of religious belief or some sort of belief system at the foundation of their thought paradigm, which is why most of the world rely on artificial intelligence to do most of its reality-based processing because most humans are out of touch with reality. We really live in our religious program-based reality and because of that a lot of us cannot make sense out of the world outside without the help of AI, without artificial intelligence being a crutch. The average person live in their religious mind, but they don't even trust it fully when it's time to negotiate for reality, which is why AI is such popular tool in our society. So when it comes to world leaders and average citizens, this chart basically breaks down what guides each group the most, belief or knowledge, and it breaks it down by actual percentages based upon statistical data. Statistics show that world leaders are guided 60 to 70 percent by belief and 30 to 40 percent by knowledge, but you got to keep in mind that being guided by a belief versus relying on a belief is two different things because when it comes to the average citizen, we rely on simply believing to manifest our will, to manifest our desire. We're being taught if you don't believe it hard enough or if you don't have enough faith, we solely rely on belief to manifest our desires, where those in power are guided by beliefs and they rely on knowledge to manifest their desires, as I explained earlier. So they may be guided by the belief of manifest destiny or even some form of racial supremacy, but when it comes to them manifesting their will, they don't leave that up to belief. That's when they bring out strategy, planning, science, technology, and etc. So world leaders are influenced by ideology, political agendas, public image, tradition, and self-interest. Knowledge is used tactically, but belief systems, especially ideological or strategic, often dominate decision-making, meaning that if the people in power believe that they can overpower you, if they believe that they are morally justified on a spiritual level for taking your land or oppressing your people, then that belief will dominate their decision-making and they will go on a crusade or lead an invasion. These kind of beliefs dominate the decision-making of most world leaders, but again, just because beliefs may guide them or dominate their decision-making, they do not rely on any beliefs to manifest their will or to manifest their decision. On the other hand, the average religious citizen is guided by belief 85 to 95 percent of the time, and you want to know why everyone is using AI to think for them, because the average religious citizen is only guided by 5 to 15 percent of knowledge. Even though it is a belief that we only use 10 percent of our brain, it's some truth to that. It ain't that nature is limiting us. I think it may be that we're limiting ourselves, and it all lies within the beliefs that we've been given from the moment we came onto the earth. Most religious adherents accept teachings through tradition, family, or emotion, not through critical investigation or empirical justification. So in this section, we're going to talk about leaders versus followers and why many world leaders rely on knowledge more than they rely on belief. Many world leaders are belief-driven, but they don't rely on belief. For example, the quote-unquote oppressor, the invader, the crusader, the people that went around the world stealing land and oppressing indigenous people. They were driven by belief that they were God's chosen people. They were driven by the belief of manifest destiny, that they had the right to take people's land that didn't belong to them, and etc. But even though they were driven by this belief, they didn't rely on belief to make this happen. They relied on military strategy, technology in the form of weapons or whatever they used throughout the time. That's a form of scientific technology. They relied on knowledge to fulfill their desires, even if their desires were driven by a bogus belief. So people in power may use knowledge as a tool, but their core motivations are often ideological, nationalism, economic theory, religious influence, or power preservation. Many leaders are products of elite education, yet still operate within narrative-based frameworks to persuade and control the masses. Real politics and image management often require abandoning uncomfortable truths in favor of belief-based messages. For example, a leader may know that more gun control laws isn't the answer, and that crime prevention is the way to go. But if that leader is buying into an agenda, they'll have been bought out by some group that is advocating for more police control, for us to go more into a police state, more undermining of the constitution. Then these particular groups need a lot of violence and crime to manifest, to even make their point of gun control. So they're really on the low fueling the violence, and they're doing it by ignoring crime prevention, and their solution is to take guns and build prisons. But that's all part of an agenda to take away all of our rights as Americans. So there are many examples where leaders know better, but they don't do better, and they act out their willful ignorance, often in the form of some bogus belief. World leaders do not rely on belief to manifest their desires, or to manifest their will. They may use beliefs to serve their own self-interest, and it ain't that they necessarily believe. They use beliefs as more of a tool of war and to get what they want, but they will never rely on beliefs to manifest their will. And this is the difference between people in power and regular day-to-day citizens. Most regular religious citizens are deeply belief-guided. Their worldview is built around faith, tradition, and trust in authority. Few have rigorously studied theology, history, or comparative religion. Their belief is often inherited, not examined. Questioning beliefs can create social, psychological, and spiritual dissonance. So knowledge is often filtered through belief rather than the reverse. So for example, a religious believer may reject scientifically supported ideas because they conflict with scripture or church doctrine. I see this happen all the time. There's a lot of people that literally believe in immaculate conceptions. They believe that parthenogenesis can happen in humans when it's only limited to plants and animals. But the reason a lot of us believe that parthenogenesis can take place in humans is because traditionally we have been raised hearing a lot of miracle birth folklores or immaculate conception stories. We've been exposed to that traditional concept in some way or some form. And it's not just in Christianity, it's in the quote-unquote black conscious community as well. These are times where we ignore reality and science and we will argue from a belief-guided perspective. And we will be very passionate about it a lot of times. So my take is that leaders and elites often weaponize belief while understanding knowledge in private. Religious citizens sincerely adopt belief as truth and often see knowledge as secondary or even threatened to bait. The true shift happens when people learn to challenge belief with justified inquiry. And that's what the powerful people in the world often discourage because belief is easier to control. So I have to ask all of you where are we headed and what is the end goal as machines do more of our thinking for us while humans become more and more of passive believers? And remember that last popular quote that I said I would share with y'all at the end? It's not even in the bible but all of us probably have heard it. And it is a big big reflection and a huge testament to the fact that humans have become passive believers. And that quote is let go and let God. This my friend is a lie that keeps people powerless. It sounds comforting right? But here go the problem. Like I just said a minute ago it ain't in the bible and even worse it contradicts another scripture in the bible that don't nobody pull up when they are quoting all of these different scriptures to promote this powerless mentality. But that scripture that contradicts all of this is James chapter 217 it says faith without works is dead. Now we all are familiar with this scripture which makes me ask the question how did a quote like let go and let God even become popular? So if you trace back the origin of this phrase you will see that it came from modern feel-good religion from pastors and pop preachers who wanted to make faith easy. But in doing that they created generations of people who are waiting instead of working, hoping instead of building, and praying instead of planning. We've been taught to treat faith as an excuse to be passive but we should treat it like a sort of motivational flame behind our actions. A sort of passion that aids us as we act versus sort of using it as this excuse to keep us not acting. So when you say let go and let God exactly what are you letting go of? In my opinion that's when we're turning our power away. We're letting go of our own power, our willpower, our ability to manifest. Your breakthrough doesn't come from waiting it comes from knowing what to do next and that starts right here. Now one last thing before you go if you resonate with this video please like share and get in the comment section and let us know something that you've believed for years that you later found out wasn't true and how it changed your life or your perception of reality. Peace and much love.