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ScottyFishman 100% agree with your assessment my friend. I often challenge folks on how they 'arrived' at their beliefs be they political or religious. I often ask what 'facts' support these beliefs, they often get mad, and say 'hey asshole do the research"' LMAO.... Almost all view it as an attack on their beliefs, not an inquiry into how they arrived at them. I have been booted from many groups, for simply asking these valid questions.Well said & agree. Welcome to the Animal Farm of cognitive bias & cognitive dissonance. Within that spectrum it goes from alpha to omega. Humans are wired to use their Ego to protect their beLIEf’s. I wholeheartedly agree they get nasty. The worst I have witnessed is right before I’m about to drop the golden egg of a fact or some esoteric knowledge to help them go beyond that level they refuse to research / read it while claiming to be open minded. Boggles the mind as to much they create their own ignorance & suffering.
My conclusion thus far is rarely do any of these folks have original thoughts or use critical thinking skills. Most simply parrot beliefs they picked up along the way, from family or peers. And many get down right nasty over my simple queries, be they, freedom fighters, religionists, politicos etc etc.
Having studied their brain activities in response to various external stimuli, the researchers concluded that "individuals who share an ideology" have their neurons react to politically charged words in a similar way. According to the study, their brains also respond to inflammatory political videos in a strikingly uniform manner.In other words, measuring the effect of brainwashing at work in real-time inside of an affected sheeple. Interesting.
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The process could be described as a "neural fingerprint" that encodes the concept of that word within the brain," she added.
They can call such a concoction "AI" if they want, but it means nothing of any importance.The more technical term would be "machine learning", and the result would be called an "expert system".
Comment: Are we thinking or reacting? What's your filter?