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Podcast: Live Life in Motion
Episode: 35. Andy Norman: Researcher / Mental Immunity & the Search for a Better Way to Think
Description: In this episode of Live Life in Motion, I talk with Andy Norman. Andy is an award-winning author, public philosopher, and prominent advocate for the field of “cognitive immunology,” which studies the mind’s resistance to bad ideas.
In this conversation you will learn how mental immunity works, how epidemics of irrationality occur, and how present cultural conditions exacerbate the spread of bad ideas by compromising our mental faculties, exploiting loopholes in the evidentiary chain of reasoning that most of us rely on in order to assess, accept, or reject claims and assertions.
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