I don't think we'll survive the transition to the internet era without this. we're like terminal AIDS patients at the moment.
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Replying to @danlistensto @vgr
What if "ideologies" *are* the "informational immune systems"? In that, an ideology is mostly resistant to new information, allowing the bearer to protect themselves from the pain of being wrong... (excerpt from Peterson, 2009)pic.twitter.com/oUB1Gy1JP9
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Replying to @simpolism @vgr
an ideology is a virulent pathogen. that is also emits counter-agents to keep out competing pathogens is just a sign of how virulent it really is.
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an immune system would prevent individuals from becoming ideologically possessed
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Replying to @danlistensto @simpolism
I think I agree with
@simpolism here. An immune system is a boundary enforcing gatekeeper that can be both good and bad (as in autoimmune diseases, organ transplant rejection). The map to ideologies is close. In fact, I'm playing with this analogy myself.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
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an ideology would be an artificial facsimile of an immune system. it has no concept of the individual. only has hosts. it's not maintaining a self/other boundary w.r.t the individual. it's maintaining it w.r.t other ideologies.
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Replying to @danlistensto @vgr
I think in this sense, your "organism" is not the human mind, but some conception of "the public sphere", in which a "virulent" ideology can cause mass change and potentially destruction. On the other hand, many people are not fond of Habermas these days...
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Replying to @simpolism @vgr
this is an interesting discussion point, and probably worth deeper examination. we're now having to confront where individual minds end and collective minds begin. in the internet era its getting harder and harder to draw a bright line there, and that's accelerating.
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if we can just identify an informational boundary that constitutes as reliable and definitive a boundary between the individual mind and the collective mind as the skin differentiates between the self and the other, i'm sure everything will be fine (i'm being deeply sarcastic)
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"well, it's like your digestive microbiome, but for information, and good insights are like probiotics"
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which, when you consider behaviors evolved for microbiome capture, makes political conversation the direct cognate of analingus shocking no one
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