Wojtek
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Eubulides <autoplectic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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