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It was argued that mental immune systems are being compromised by ideas, and that by developing a science of mental immunity, critical thinking can be improved.
Yeah, so mental immunity is resistance to the uptake of bad ideas.
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It was argued that mental immune systems are being compromised by ideas, and that by developing a science of mental immunity, critical thinking can be improved.
Yeah, so mental immunity is resistance to the uptake of bad ideas.
Turns out based on about 60 years of research in psychology our minds have immune systems too and they protect us from infectious ideas to one or another degree.
And what we're witnessing today, if you want to understand our root cause of contemporary craziness. It's that mental immune systems have been compromised by ideas that actually disrupt their functioning.
So that's the thesis of my book and I argue that by developing the science of mental immunity, science of resistance to bad ideas that we can actually enhance critical thinking and take it to a whole new level.
I'm reading a book right now about it's called 'The Storm is Upon Us,' it's the story of how the QAnon evolved as a set of beliefs.
Episode: 590: Andy Norman | The Search for a Better Way to...
It was argued that the book's core thesis is that mental immune systems can be compromised by ideas that disrupt their function, leading to the craziness of today's world.
So that's the thesis of my book and I argue that by developing the science of mental immunity, science of resistance to bad ideas that we can actually enhance critical thinking and take it to a whole new level.
Yeah, so mental immunity is resistance to the uptake of bad ideas.
And what we're witnessing today, if you want to understand our root cause of contemporary craziness. It's that mental immune systems have been compromised by ideas that actually disrupt their functioning.
I take some some pride in having developed the idea well the metaphor of it makes sense to weed our minds of bad ideas and seed them with good ones.
In my own book I actually character as the same idea as I call it reasons for crim it's the idea that we should always yield to better reasons reasons for crim is a way to make intellectual humility actionable.