Cognitive dissonance is often treated as a moral weakness, but it seems to be the normal result of being forced to hold conflicting beliefs in the same context (often for moral/social reasons). Boredom, outrage and humor are cognitive strategies to keep them from collapsing.
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Yes indeed. And just as the behavior of single cell organisms is elicited through a bottom-up nested hierarchy with the genetic code at the very bottom, all more complex biological systems elaborate upon that sort of bottom-up hierarchy of circular causation.pic.twitter.com/vlJChOTztp
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Our emotional affects are based upon valences survival values, and our thoughts are an elaboration of those valences. Emotional systems reference genetic survival values, and our cognitive systems reference our emotional systems.
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