Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect...
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
I live in Bolivia, where lithium is mined and the powdered lithium bicarbonate is manufactured. Maybe the population here is always in a good...
Well said and thank you, Caitlin Johnstone.
I saw this interview between McGilchrist and Jordan Peterson. Excellent discussion. [Link]
I don't think the article mentions how self-talk gets comedy going in laughter. Self-talk out loud is not self-talk although. But I think...
The BBC series on Rome featured a news reader - I think the same actor who portrayed the plumber on Doc Martin. He was shown in pretty much all...
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