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What if… Bias opens or closes neural pathways?

Jeff Carter
2 min readMay 6, 2023

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Imagine your brain works like the busiest train terminal on the globe — Shinjuku station in Japan.

This station features 36 platforms that serve 20 tracks and 12 train links, plus 1600 buses from all over Japan. Imagine the 36 platforms are different processing areas of the brain. Each platform has a massive number of access gates that act as filters for the [raw data] to a specific escalator that attaches to the ‘train of thought’.

Now view your various biases (or presuppositions) like the access gates filtering or directing information as it comes from various sources. For our purposes, think of the platforms across from each other as opposing viewpoints. One as TRUE and the other as OTHER. (a combination of false and half truths etc.)

The access gates filter our intent awareness [one is subjective and one is objective] and the conditional formatting of how the information gets directed [access gates] is based on your unconscious thoughts about opinion, half-truth or verified fact.

By that I mean a diehard right-wing Fox listener would take Fox information as a verified fact whereas they would take a left leaning media as a unfounded opinion without taking the time to research either. So the access gates filter (direct)…

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Jeff Carter
Jeff Carter

Written by Jeff Carter

Learning Architect / Freelance Educationist

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