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2025-02-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Scientific Reasons WHY Woke Leftists Are Bad at Understanding Others – Dr. Iain McGilchrist

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Posted by 3dc 2025-02-22 08:36|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Rabbit–duck illusion

Fascinating.
Speculation on the organic origins of 'Inattention Blindness'

some types of neuro-divergence may decrease the effects of this phenomenon

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-22 09:29|| 2025-02-22 09:29|| Front Page Top

#2 List-method directed forgetting after prolonged retention interval: Further challenges to contemporary accounts

The retrieval-inhibition account assumes that the forget cue activates an inhibitory control process that impairs access

Suggesting that some of diminished capacity ['Danes', et. al.] may be suffering a evolutionary disfunction of the organic engine of memory. I suppose a propagation error is possible in small gene pools, clans or constrained religious sects.

I'm reminded of the street interview videos of Muslims following the 10/7 events. Complete, absolute denial of the encroachment, murders and kidnappings that occurred.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-22 09:51|| 2025-02-22 09:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Not all were in denial.

I don't think Muslims are unaware of the facts.
It is the interpretation that differs between an Honor/Shame culture and a Guilt culture.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-02-22 11:06|| 2025-02-22 11:06|| Front Page Top

#4 IMO, leftists (rank & file) fall into two categories: herd creatures and people who (somewhere deep inside) know they're second rate but like to pretend they're elites.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-22 12:25|| 2025-02-22 12:25|| Front Page Top

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