[extropy-chat] The political brain

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The political brain

http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=000CE155-1061-1493-906183414B7F0162

This very good article says that when it comes to politics we tend to
forget reason and run by emotions: ""Essentially, it appears as if
partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the
conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it,
with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of
positive ones,"".

This is probably the reason why transhumanists never seem to come to
any agreement when political positions are concerned. There must be
some kind of emotional attachment to political ideas formed early in
life, that switches reason off when it comes to questioning one's
worldview.

Or, to say it like our grandfathers (there is nothing new onder the
sun): you are blind to what you don't want to see, and deaf to what
you don't want to hear.

G.