Why is the fallacy of the excluded middle so tenacious? Here's a hypothesis. 1/n
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For an egregore the excluded middle is about construction of boundaries. Shibboleths specify an ingroup, like antigens on a cell wall. 2/n
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Antigens allow cells to recognize which other cells are tissue, and which are infection. Likewise, shibboleth, cant, slogan, creed. 3/n
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A human doesn't believe package-deal identity-by-checklist shit. But humans mobilized into swarms act as-if they do--*insist* they do. 4/n
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And humans have experienced strong selection pressure for a long time to be good swarm-hosts. 5/n
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(Being a 'wild-type' human rather than a 'swarm-type'--in my religion, a SubGenius or Yeti-human hybrid--is an uncomfortable thing.) 5.5/n
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So modal humans are preadapted to believing the fallacy of the excluded middle. Bad for individual sanity, but good for swarming. 6/6
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