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Cognitive Black Hole

Whenever someone takes a dogmatic position that only leads into a confined recursive feedback loop of confirmation bias, thus further reinforcing that given belief and making it impossible to escape.
Kanye West - "Jewish people control the media and the entertainment industry."
*gets cancelled for antisemitic remarks*
Kanye West - "See!?..."
dude - "damn, Kanye fell into a cognitive black hole."
by cutza November 3, 2022
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cognitive function

"I got in a car wreck. Now I'm a vegetable."

"How are you typing? "

"Cognitive Function Bitch"
by Dick ThunderSword May 11, 2015
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cognizent pickle

a pickle that is cognizent of its surroundings. it is able to subtract that which exists from that which does not exist and maintain a meager form of existance.
someone with long black hair and weird fingernails is a cognizent pickle.
by richard free man July 10, 2006
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Cognitive Dissonance

Internally repealing old beliefs and past experiences and replacing them with new information that contradicts the original to conform with internal belief structures.

Example: Democrats
Joe Biden saying if the President had done his job, no one would have died from Covid-19, then declaring "there is nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months" is an extreme case of Cognitive Dissonance.
by 7Slinger January 26, 2021
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cognitive dissonance

Cognitive Dissonance States that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions.
You do a boring job, but is paid $30/hour, so you say that is a nice and interesting job....'well, it is not cognitive dissonance, I think is a great new job!!'

You are deciding about two movies, your girlfriend wants to see the most boring one so after the cinema, you think it was a good movie and cool after all.
by David Mendoza November 9, 2006
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cognitive dissonance

Knowing you made the wrong choice but are too stubborn to correct yourself and therefore deny it by saying everyone else made the wrong choice.
PS3 fanboy: PS3 KICKS 360'S ASS ANYDAY.

Xbox fanboy: Uhhh...Okay. Cognitive dissonance. I'll just go back to playing Halo 3.
by hobolikker May 27, 2009
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cognitive blink

The attention is drawn away and the mind loses focus by an external event.
Soldiers experience cognitive blink when they don't execute new orders.
A deer stops and stares because he is evaluating the threat level of another deer during mating season.
A painter goes through his paint buckets in the garage to decide which ones have become useless or dried out, but then stops and searches his surroundings because of suspicious noise that sounded like a rat.
by Axelsword August 24, 2019
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