This is a fascinating look at the actual mechanics of how rabbit holes and shared delusions initially form, and the author doesn’t even need to talk about the way that they evolve into the entire nation states for the mind to be stimulated.
I wonder what your theory is about autistic people. I have talked about before., actually in my most liked piece of content on Substack, about how the child in the legend who dethroned the naked emperor was clearly autistic. I believe the autistic mind gets dopamine stimulation from being personally correct and is not able to projected onto other figures in the way that you're talking about which normal people clearly do. And this is why all totalitarians from Hitler to Trump have feared autistic people as being impossible to brainwash, and therefore disruptive to the agenda. And this is why autistic people are such notorious, argumentative Internet trolls who intentionally represent themselves as advocating for viewpoints designed to outrage people. It gives them a way to feel personally correct by dunking on stupid normies by using pretzel logic to justify absurd premises. The social disapproval does not cause the dip that it does in normal people who get a lower than pleasant outcome.
Your "conclusions" are not consistent with my emotions and certainly not with my behavioral choices. When so-called experts make predictions that turn out to be wrong I have no further reason to listen and, in fact, stop listening to them. Their perceived level of confidence means nothing to me. Accuracy is credibility. We are not talking about horseshoes. Closeness doesn't count. Neither does the so-called experts' academic creditials, work histories, or anyone else's personal endorsements. The neurotransmitter Dopamine is not a factor in my decision making.
That is so good, sir. Having no influence from dopamine in these decisions is very important, and we should learn from people like you. Thank you for reading.
Thank you. One must develop the capacity to distinguish between pleasant emotions and facts that can be verified based on credible evidence. In addition, students need to learn to utilize inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning to analyze available data in order to generate and test plausible hypotheses. American Psychologist George Kelly developed Personal Construct Theory in which he argued in 1955 that, as individuals, we create and test hypotheses based on the interactions between our beliefs, experiences, and expected outcomes. He called this hypothesis creating and testing process the Man-as-Scientist principle.
Just mentioning a possibly helpful distinguishment or Subset, but inclusive to the bias’s of the you mention. This can be broken into four groups;
Confirmation Bias: The tendency to search for, interpret, and favor information that aligns with your preexisting beliefs or desires, while ignoring contradictory facts.
Motivated Reasoning: A process where your subconscious emotional desires act as a "cognitive gravitational pull," guiding your brain to subconsciously construct justifications that protect what you already want to believe.
Belief Bias: The tendency to evaluate the strength of an argument based on how plausible it sounds, rather than on its actual logical validity.
Credulity: The trait of being easily persuaded to believe something is true without sufficient or reliable evidence.
Part of understanding the human condition is: if you better understand how your brain wants to work you sort of get a cheat code on how to think outside the box and better rationalize.
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… sweet! I have a link to it through Substack. I just dug up.
This is a fascinating look at the actual mechanics of how rabbit holes and shared delusions initially form, and the author doesn’t even need to talk about the way that they evolve into the entire nation states for the mind to be stimulated.
Very well said.
I wonder what your theory is about autistic people. I have talked about before., actually in my most liked piece of content on Substack, about how the child in the legend who dethroned the naked emperor was clearly autistic. I believe the autistic mind gets dopamine stimulation from being personally correct and is not able to projected onto other figures in the way that you're talking about which normal people clearly do. And this is why all totalitarians from Hitler to Trump have feared autistic people as being impossible to brainwash, and therefore disruptive to the agenda. And this is why autistic people are such notorious, argumentative Internet trolls who intentionally represent themselves as advocating for viewpoints designed to outrage people. It gives them a way to feel personally correct by dunking on stupid normies by using pretzel logic to justify absurd premises. The social disapproval does not cause the dip that it does in normal people who get a lower than pleasant outcome.
What do you think?
Your "conclusions" are not consistent with my emotions and certainly not with my behavioral choices. When so-called experts make predictions that turn out to be wrong I have no further reason to listen and, in fact, stop listening to them. Their perceived level of confidence means nothing to me. Accuracy is credibility. We are not talking about horseshoes. Closeness doesn't count. Neither does the so-called experts' academic creditials, work histories, or anyone else's personal endorsements. The neurotransmitter Dopamine is not a factor in my decision making.
That is so good, sir. Having no influence from dopamine in these decisions is very important, and we should learn from people like you. Thank you for reading.
Thank you. One must develop the capacity to distinguish between pleasant emotions and facts that can be verified based on credible evidence. In addition, students need to learn to utilize inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning to analyze available data in order to generate and test plausible hypotheses. American Psychologist George Kelly developed Personal Construct Theory in which he argued in 1955 that, as individuals, we create and test hypotheses based on the interactions between our beliefs, experiences, and expected outcomes. He called this hypothesis creating and testing process the Man-as-Scientist principle.
Very well said.
Just mentioning a possibly helpful distinguishment or Subset, but inclusive to the bias’s of the you mention. This can be broken into four groups;
Confirmation Bias: The tendency to search for, interpret, and favor information that aligns with your preexisting beliefs or desires, while ignoring contradictory facts.
Motivated Reasoning: A process where your subconscious emotional desires act as a "cognitive gravitational pull," guiding your brain to subconsciously construct justifications that protect what you already want to believe.
Belief Bias: The tendency to evaluate the strength of an argument based on how plausible it sounds, rather than on its actual logical validity.
Credulity: The trait of being easily persuaded to believe something is true without sufficient or reliable evidence.
Part of understanding the human condition is: if you better understand how your brain wants to work you sort of get a cheat code on how to think outside the box and better rationalize.
🕰️
… sweet! I have a link to it through Substack. I just dug up.
Well said, thanks.
https://neuroscienceandpsy.substack.com/p/why-we-fall-for-bullshit?r=6m1fqj&utm_medium=ios
'And watch what happens when the miss is simply too big to wave away with a small excuse. The avoidance does not stop, it escalates.' yeah :)
And verily I say,
Mess not with my world view
For I shall split the heavens asunder
When my failure forces me to