One took a cohort of people with a well defined, polarized, and defended belief system,
good example Abortion is Good vs Abortion is Evil
Put these people in the machine
Present them with Congruent data to their belief system
The Endorphin pathways lit up - Natural Narcotic
Present them with In-congruent data to their belief system
There was wide suppression of the ability to learn
Hearing stuff you agree with makes you feel good
Hearing stuff you don't agree with, turn off mind
I've watched myself do this now many times
It has been... Enlightening
It turns out that we subconsciously manipulate ourselves
To "Prune" data inputs, and it requires engaging the Prefrontal Cortex
or the "Command Pathways" to overcome it
“It turns out that we subconsciously manipulate ourselves
to “Prune” data inputs, and it requires engaging the Prefrontal Cortex or the “Command Pathways” to overcome it”
Ben Franklin wrote, “...for having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions even on important subjects which I once thought right but found to be otherwise...”
Now, I’m no Benjamin Franklin, and I’ve been wrong about so much stuff that I’ve had to change my mind on almost everything: divorce, premarital sex, adultery, abortion, economics, and on and on.
I didn’t do it lightly, but after lengthy, intense study of each of these matters.
Now, if you show me an article that merely recaps what I struggled with decades ago, with no new arguments or information, then no, I’m not going to waste time on it. I presume there’s nothing exceptional about that.
If you’re trying to run a life, you can’t be dealing with every issue anew each time you run into the same old arguments.
What the authors really wanted to say was, “If you’re not a leftist, you’re closed minded and a dummy poot poot.”