This is our recurring temptation–to live within our camp’s caves, taking turns both as the shadow-puppeteers and the audience. We chant our camp’s mantras repeatedly so they continue reverberating in our skulls. When we stay entrenched within our belief-camps, we create the illusion of secure reality by reinforcing each other’s presuppositions and paradigms. We choose specific watering holes of information and evidence, and we influence each other in interpreting that data in accordance with the conclusions we desire. Our camps reinforce our existing cognitive biases, making cheating all the more common and easy. Daniel Jones
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The idea of cognitive bias is nothing new. The idea that we always have our own personal biases and perspectives and we tend to pick them up from our environment and culture which influences everyone’s thinking. Even if we don’t know it, we are still affected by this daily because we just don’t realize it. We gather information from our surroundings and then we pass it along to others to interpret in a certain way. For example, believing that everything is bad or that everything is good is a cognitive bias since it depends on what we see everyday and how much we look at the world around us.

Our minds will interpret things the way we want to see them because it’s easier for us to do so. When there is a lot of bad news out there, we might think that the world is getting worse and that things will never get better. Even if there were two sides to an argument, our minds will still interpret things according to our opinions about those sides. We can be biased towards one side or another without even knowing it because there are indications that show our biases—such as when people like one side over the other or they have a strong opinion about something. In addition to our personal biases, social media can also bring up these ideas in many ways.

One way this happens is when a person posts a certain opinion on social media and others react very negatively towards him or her so they become a target for bullying through social media because they have been doing something wrong or just by being different from the majority of people. The other way this happens is when people try to influence others into following their camp by praising their camp’s mantras repeatedly until people begin taking those mantras as truth. In other words, they begin believing in those mantras without questioning or questioning them first. This causes people to be blind to other options and causes them not to think independently for themselves but rather do what everyone else believes in a certain camp instead of making their own decisions based on logical evidence because they believe the other camp doesn’t work as well as their own because they have been doing that for a long time without questioning it first. In both scenarios above, those who are bullied then end up staying within their own camps as well as those who are influenced by others stay within their own camps as well as those who believe in mantras repeat those mantras over and over again because they don’t question them first either

Source: Shadow Gods

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