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180. Andy Norman — Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think
The Michael Shermer Show
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Yourse is an to te michael sherworsheour sponsor of the podcast. The great courses are available through a subscription service, so you can do this exes through your computer on many different platforms. My guest today is andy norman who directs the humanism initiative at carnegie melon university. He studies how ideologies short circuit minds and corrupt moral understanding. And he develops tools that help people think together in more fruitful ways. We discuss mental immunity, infectious ideas, mind sites in the search for a better way to think. Then we go through his twelfth, twelfve step programme about adopting a more flexible mental attitude which makes you less susceptible to bad ideas.
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