On Holocaust Remembrance Day, don’t remember: distrust your own impulse to interpret. Memory lies exactly in dwelling where interpretation urges solutions, and rejecting those that seem sufficient.
Under authoritarian regimes, citizens learn to hide their true selves while performing obedience. The resulting psychological split has devastating mental health consequences.
Modern neuroscience and the computational modeling of the activities of vast, integrated neural networks provide fruitful accounts of how our minds work and learn.
This is the mind’s game behind polarization in humans: our opinions are often less about truth and more about identity.