similar to how your vision is filtered & shaped by your perceptive apparatus, your beliefs and observations are interpreted through your epistemic exoskeleton, ie your ideology. it is a tool, a force multiplier, a collection of analytic lenses which enable your sense-making
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an ideology isn't a set of propositions, it's the underlying geometry your propositions are embedded in
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just like any tool, however, an ideology functions by limiting your possibilities in exchange for greater effectiveness, diminishing your ability to engage w/ truths outside the reach of this ideology; no frame can possibly encompass all possible truths.

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intelligence requires shifting between cognitive frameworks, recognizing that there can't be one universal mental structure which is able to generate all insights. …
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ideologies are powerful tools, but also dangerous; if you're not careful, you may get too used to inhabiting a specific cockpit and forget that it's not an inherent part of you. this is ideological calcification, ie the loss of metacognitive optionality

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calcification as an energy-efficiency adaptation; why maintain expensive optionality if you're unlikely to need it?

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mastering your mind involves learning to think of cognitive frames in these terms, choosing the appropriate ideological cockpit for each situation; fully inhabiting them w/o holding back, but still being able to exit at will. this is tricky!

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la petite mort of an ego in maximal flow

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your cognitive environment is a seldom-mentioned optimization domain; the concepts you have hanging on your workshop wall greatly affect your intellectual effectiveness. only using a single ideology makes everything look like a nail; tend to your mind.

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your inhabited environment is an extension of your self; you store body parts in it, & embody them on-demand, to re-spec. are we not different machines when cooking, c…
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