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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RT @interpretantion
an ideology isn't a set of propositions, it's the underlying geometry your propositions are embedded in
https://twitter.com/interpretantion/status/1398634720871825409

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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RT @pee_zombie
intelligence requires shifting between cognitive frameworks, recognizing that there can't be one universal mental structure which is able to generate all insights. …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1328950759564709894

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

https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/13796527422…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1387420775775363072