A subset of neuroscience that is "totally necessary" because "just because you can't quantify it doesn't mean it's not there." The cognitive neuroscience professors will defend the validity of cognition with their lives, and fight the neuroscience department for their honor.
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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."
*gets cancelled for antisemitic remarks*
Kanye West - "See!?..."
dude - "damn, Kanye fell into a cognitive black hole."
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Get the cognitive function mug.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
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.
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Immaculate Cognition, the capricious and spontaneous generation of supposedly irrefutable knowledge without any verifiable outside influences or forces, is in reality rarer than Immaculate Conception.
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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.
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.
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