what if believing stuff that's really controversial is good for your immune system
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tbc the mechanism i have in mind is just that believing controversial stuff is fun and having fun is good for your immune system
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it's an interesting alternative medicine confounder 🤔 potentially almost all of the benefit of alternative medicine is that it is more fun than western medicine and this could be good and important actually
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going to a hospital? negative fun
learning about herbs and feeling like a witch? extremely fun
food for thought
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tricky bit is that having fun is good for your immune system but having fun *for the immune benefits* probably makes it a bit less fun; you're sort of co-opting the fun into an anxiety loop about your health
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shoulda added this bit earlier
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there is also something about controversial beliefs that make you feel powerful vs. powerless maybe
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I think it's possible to engage in magical thinking in pretend play, much like what children do instinctively, and get a lot of the benefit. It makes your conceptual mind feel good to throw its weight around and cosmologize, even if it is in a fictional universe.
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