On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:37:44PM +0100, Jenny ure wrote:
> Bit like Hebbian reinforcement in cognitive psychology (01)
Very much so! Indeed, it seems a plausible piece of armchair
neuroscience that something like Hebbian mechanisms would be responsible
for this phenomenon. (02)
-chris (03)
> Christopher Menzel wrote:
>
> > Fair enough, though I think that over time the beliefs in question
> >*do* become psychologically unshakeable, as the ability to think
> >critically is lost and one's worldview becomes fixed and ossified.
> >At that point the marginalization or destruction of "nonbelievers" is
> >no longer rooted in a fear of being wrong but rather in a sort of
> >hardwired irrationality. (04)
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