For sure. I'm just trying to figure out where this particular ability - to maintain a dogmatic belief when there's no supporting evidence or even contrary evidence - comes from.
It's not the same as native intelligence, which is (to a large degree) a variable based around the energy budget we can afford to give to the brain. This is something else.
We're a pattern-matching species, and there's a pleasant little epiphany feeling that comes with finding patterns. I wonder if folks who persist in silly beliefs just have the slider for "ooh, nice pattern" pushed up higher than most?
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Date: 2009-02-16 12:12 pm (UTC)It's not the same as native intelligence, which is (to a large degree) a variable based around the energy budget we can afford to give to the brain. This is something else.
We're a pattern-matching species, and there's a pleasant little epiphany feeling that comes with finding patterns. I wonder if folks who persist in silly beliefs just have the slider for "ooh, nice pattern" pushed up higher than most?
Or whether they're just dicks. :)