The Art of the Conspiracy Theory - new Ribbonfarm by me
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"predictive programming" - turn around the causality arrow and you get something that works
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is there a word for humanity's tendency to make even the unanimated world mirror its narratives and myths?
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I mean yes, there's meme magic + hyperstition, but I don't have terminology to describe the slower large-scale movements
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hm this doesn't capture the causal component though - a decision familiarized through narrative is one easier made
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while, yes, you can read it as having causal power, as far as connotations go, apophenia is very image-only
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I think of apophenia as broader - e.g. tendency to see one's politics reflected in everything
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twitter.com/allgebrah/stat - also epiphenia
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aphenia: (n) seeing sth without recognizing it
cacophenia: (n) sensory/conceptual overload
ambiphenia: (n) that which necker cubes produce
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"image" was the wrong word choice, meant map; -phenia implies "in the mind" and even a "prescriptive" doesn't change that