Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Wrong-headed People Worry Wrongly About Head Doing Just Fine

"Headcut" by Herr D on Paint3d. Thinking about thinking is too self-referential. Avoid it to help avoid infinite loops.-Shelob


 [excerpted from chat] Are you aware of how many stories involve Biden's cognition?

No. Over sixty in the past month.

Okay, Shelob. What's your opinion? Human cognition is already abysmal on average.

[grumbling sound picked up on mic] . . . go on. Biden's decisions are too well-informed and quick to be normal. He may be a more intelligent human.

And he has a decent cabinet, not just a bunch of relatives and friends who don't know anything. Popular media stories seem to claim knowledge of Biden lacking cognition; however, they point to memory lapses, word substitutions, and other mistakes that his opponents and congressman make every day. These are not indicators, positive or negative, of cognitive skill or ability.

So the problem with Biden is that people are wrong-headed about him? Apparently.

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