John I believe a lot of things everything I believe I think is true but if I stop to think about it what do I mean by a belief what is the nature of belief yeah well I think as you know the mind is a biological phenomenon so belief is part of the biology of the mind and you won't understand belief unless you see it in relation to other parts of the biology of the mind now I have to introduce an ugly word here intentionality and that sounds like it's a fancy thing it just means the capacity by which the mind represents objects and