Wonder what kind of study they could do in Belgium, where there are two sets of political parties (Francophone and Flemish) whose differences cannot always be put on a left-right spectrum. And whose spectrum goes way beyond liberal and conservative.
>Greetings Economists, >On Sep 11, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Jim Devine wrote: > >> By the way, the valid, dialectical, kind of maintenance of "two >> contradictory ideas" simultaneously represents a strong ability to >> resist the unease arising from cognitive dissonance. > >Doyle; >That sounds like Sartre on nausea or anxiety at nothingness. The >problem with a speculation about holding contradictions in mind is most >of this is said outside of knowing what the brain does. For example, >To some degree the brain has a bunch of patches laid out in various >areas. It's sort of established the frontal cortex can tap into >patches elsewhere to 'think'. So where are these contradictions >housed? > >The patches of brain real estate operate so that knowledge passes >through them altering the connections so that patterns are the most >likely thing thought. A patch can respond to a plethora of patterns. >Is a contradiction a specific descriptions of these patches put >together in the frontal lobe? It's an abstraction at best by Orwell >about 'think'. > >We can understand some verbal statement contradicts someone else's >statement. But I suspect anything about thinking from Orwell is just >hot air. >Doyle > >
