an immune system would prevent individuals from becoming ideologically possessed
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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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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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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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this but literally, no scare quotes
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biohacker transhuman yogurt snacks where eating it makes you more skeptical
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(this already exists, but it's not yogurt)
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people act like the most valuable reflex for this is asking "what is the evidence for this" but actually it's asking "is what i'm thinking appealing to me because it's self-serving"
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