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Connoisseur of antidepressants. Words about psychology, philosophy, politics.

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    1. Gurindoor‏ @G_S_Bhogal Feb 6
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      Radical Phase Transition (my term): Extremist movements can behave like solids (tyrannies), liquids (insurgencies), and gases (conspiracy theories). Pressuring them causes them to go from solid => liquid => gas. Leaving them alone causes them to go from gas => liquid => solid.

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    2. Gurindoor‏ @G_S_Bhogal Feb 6
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      Legibility: We see a complex natural system, assume that because it *looks* messy that it must be disordered, then impose our own order on it to make it “legible”. But in removing the messiness we remove essential components of the system that we couldn’t grasp, and it fails.pic.twitter.com/LQqvpkFcMp

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    3. Gurindoor‏ @G_S_Bhogal Feb 6
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      Shifting Baseline Syndrome: Frog says to Fish, “how’s the water?” Fish replies, “what’s water?” We become blind to what we’re familiar with. And since the world is always changing, and we're always getting used to it, we can even become blind to the slow march of catastrophe.

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    4. Gurindoor‏ @G_S_Bhogal Feb 6
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      Availability Cascade: When a new concept enters the arena of ideas, people react to it, thereby amplifying it. The idea thus becomes more popular, causing even more people to amplify it by reacting to it, until everyone feels the need to talk about it.

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    5. Gurindoor‏ @G_S_Bhogal Feb 6
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      Gurwinder Principle: It is often necessary to eat chocolate cake.

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    6. Gurindoor‏ @G_S_Bhogal Feb 6
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      Reactance Theory: When someone is restricted from expressing a POV, or pressured to adopt a different POV, they usually react by believing their original POV even more. For a detailed example read my piece on my attempt to deradicalize a neo-Nazi:https://areomagazine.com/2017/10/28/how-not-to-de-radicalize-a-twitter-neo-nazi/ …

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    7. Gurindoor‏ @G_S_Bhogal Feb 6
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      Predictive Coding: There is no actual movement on a TV screen; your brain invents it. There are no actual spaces between spoken words; your brain inserts them. Human perception is like predictive text, replacing the unknown with the expected. Predictive Coding leads to…

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    8. Gurindoor‏ @G_S_Bhogal Feb 6
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      Apophenia: We impose our imaginations on arrangements of data, seeing patterns where no such patterns exist. A common form of Apophenia is…

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    9. Gurindoor‏ @G_S_Bhogal Feb 6
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      Narrative Fallacy: When we see a sequence of facts we interpret them as a story by threading them together into an imagined chain of cause & effect. If a drug addict commits suicide we assume the drug habit led to the suicide, even if it didn’t. Another form of Apophenia is…

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    10. Gurindoor‏ @G_S_Bhogal Feb 6
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      Pareidolia: For aeons predators stalked us in undergrowth & shadow. In such times survival favored the paranoid—those who could discern a wolf from the vaguest of outlines. This paranoia preserved our species, but cursed us with pareidolia, so we now see wolves even in the skies.pic.twitter.com/9pxdCZ4MrN

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      Gurindoor‏ @G_S_Bhogal Feb 6
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      And that’s it! There are many other ideas but these are the ones that came to mind first (availability bias), and I think they provide good springboards for understanding a wide range of phenomena. Feel free to reply with your own, and see if you can explain them in 1 tweet!

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        2. Alfonso Araujo‏ @Alf_ArGzz Feb 7
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          Hello Gurwinder, can I have your permission to translate your thread of "40 concepts..." into Spanish and link it back to you?

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        3. Gurindoor‏ @G_S_Bhogal Feb 9
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          Sure Alfonso, go ahead!

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        2. Col Fink‏ @col_fink Feb 6
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          Absolutely brilliant Gurwinder. You're my favourite person on Twitter.

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        3. Gurindoor‏ @G_S_Bhogal Feb 6
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          Wow, thank you Col 🙏

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        2. Thinking Indian (Dr.Nikunj)‏ @Nikunj21129 Feb 6
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          @threadreaderapp please unroll

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          Hello, please find the unroll here: Thread by @G_S_Bhogal: MEGATHREAD TIME: In 40 tweets I will describe 40 powerful concepts for understanding the world.… https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1225561131122597896.html …. See you soon. 🤖

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        1. Briant Wolfe‏ @briantwolfe Feb 6
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          The small group assumption. Our brains assume that nearly everyone we encounter came from the same small group, thus - should know our norms, should know what we know , should expect what we expect. Source of much conflict.

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        1. Mark Davess‏ @markdavess Feb 7
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          A great book would go through these (& similar) concepts & give some examples from the real world; (recent) history maybe. The more serious the consequences the better. Links between the concepts too. 'Straight & Crooked Thinking' by Robert Thouless comes to mind, must be others.

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        1. Harry Braviner‏ @harrybraviner Feb 7
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          Apollo effect*: By trying to do something incredibly difficult but not immediately useful, you sometimes end up learning useful things along the way. *Yeh, I just made up that name.

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        2. Srikkanth‏ @srikkanth_01 Feb 7
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          This is one hell of an amazing thread.

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        3. Amit GK‏ @amitkal Feb 7
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          Absolutely. Thanks for sharing 👌🏻

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