> This confirms my long held belief that a rational discussion between
> liberals and conservatives is pointless, because cognitive frames used
> to form each point of view (or "motivated cognition" in psychological
> parlance) are a priori determinants of how information is being
> processed - i.e. deciding what is relevant and what is not and how the
> relevant information is arranged and interpreted. Therefore, any
> information obtained in a discussion will be either deemed irrelevant
> by the other side or interpreted in a manner that is consistent with
> his own cognitive framework. This is especially true of conservatives
> who tend to be more cognitively rigid than liberals.
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There are no a priori determinants of how information is processed.
Ian