xpost: Mental Immunity: the Antidote to Infectious Ideas

Registration & link: https://bityl.co/5bQo
Why are ideologies poisoning public discourse? Why is extremism on the rise? How did we get here, and what can we do about it?

It turns out some influential assumptions are suppressing our culture’s “immune response” to dangerous ideas. These assumptions prevent us from normalizing critical thinking, and leave us vulnerable to mind-parasites.

Fortunately, there’s a cure. In this talk, philosopher Andy Norman will isolate an idea with a long history of inoculating people against the worst forms of ideological contagion, and argue that we can fashion it into a mind vaccine.

Andy Norman is a public philosopher and award-winning author. He’s currently developing the conceptual foundations of cognitive immunology—the emerging science of mental immune health. He thinks this fledgling science explains how ideologies short-circuit minds and corrupt moral understanding. He also thinks its applications can inoculate us against infectious forms of irrationality.

His book Mental Immunity is available now for pre-order at https://bookshop.org/books/mental-immunity-infectious-ideas-mind-parasites-and-the-search-for-a-better-way-to-think/9780063002982
Time
Mar 9, 2021 07:00 PM in EST