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Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson: The Making of Real Life NPCs, Part 2

March 31, 2022 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

Make sure to read Part 1 wherein we studied mental programming from the family fire to the smartphone. The mass-man (who we now know as an NPC — a Non-player Character) doesn’t create, he repeats. He doesn’t originate. He is a vector for whatever virus he is meant to spread. His opinions are given to […]

Filed Under: blog, Logic And Reason Tagged With: cognitive biases, logic, logic and reason lessons, NPCs

Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson: The Making of Real-Life NPCs

March 24, 2022 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

Part 1 In Science Fiction (and in science) there is the trope of the “virus” that infects but does not kill its host so it can spread. In sci-fi, the virus makes a major change in the nature of the host, turning it into something else entirely, regardless of whether or not the host continues […]

Filed Under: blog, Logic And Reason Tagged With: brainwashing, logic, logic and reason lessons, NPCs, programming

Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson: The Granfalloon Technique

March 19, 2022 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

Here we go! Ever wonder why it is so easy for propagandists and powerful interests to control people? Funnel humans into manufactured cliques and give them something to protect (real or imagined,) and you can control the mass-man remotely. This is the “Granfalloon Technique.” You’ll want to pay attention on this one, because it is […]

Filed Under: blog, Logic And Reason Tagged With: cognitive biases, logic, logic and reason lessons

God Sees the Truth But Waits

March 16, 2022 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

I consider GOD SEES THE TRUTH BUT WAITS by Leo Tolstoy to be one of the absolute MUST reads in the category of short stories, and I have recommended it here many times over the years. The story ably answers the question “Why do bad things happen to good people?” (Easy. There are no good […]

Filed Under: blog, Literature, Russian Literature Tagged With: blog, justice, literature, Russian Literature, truth

Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson: The Overton Window

March 15, 2022 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

The term “Overton Window” is a way of describing how and where political ideas fall in the spectrum of acceptability and how the overall window moves through time. Ideas that once were considered “outside the window of possibility” become possible when the window shifts in one direction or another. A great example is the idea […]

Filed Under: blog, Logic And Reason Tagged With: cognitive biases, logic, logic and reason lessons

The Musk Paradox

March 9, 2022 by Michael Bunker 1 Comment

Listen up, people, and simmer down. I’ve just eaten a whole Cinnabon and here’s the 2nd part of the Elon Musk thing from the other day. The person closest to the right answer said that when Elon Musk enters into the simulation and walks out onto his porch he sees the “night sky.” This is […]

Filed Under: blog, Logic And Reason Tagged With: age of the universe, cognitive biases, elon musk, fermi paradox, logic, logic and reason lessons, musk paradox, the musk paradox

Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson: SELF-CENTRISM as a Cognitive Bias

February 18, 2022 by Michael Bunker 2 Comments

Well, this one will probably piss everyone off…Today’s Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson is a cognitive bias that might surprise you. Most people know SELF-CENTEREDism as perhaps an unattractive character trait that, at some level, we all exhibit. But did you know that it causes a cognitive bias that can lead all of us into […]

Filed Under: blog, Logic And Reason Tagged With: centrism, cognitive biases, logic, logic and reason lessons, logic fallacies, self-centered

Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson: A Twofer… The GISH GALLOP and BRIN BUNDLING

February 9, 2022 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

The logic lessons for today are two I have covered more extensively in YouTube videos. But they can never be said enough, and I’ve not talked about them much here, and there are always new folks, so here goes. I couple these two together because they are closely related. These are argumentation tactics or sophistical […]

Filed Under: blog, Logic And Reason Tagged With: argumentation tactics, Brin Bundling, cognitive bias, David Brin, fallacies, Gish Gallop, logic, logic and reason lessons

Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson: CHERRY PICKING (Incomplete Evidence)

February 5, 2022 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

Howdy. Today’s Bunker Logic and Reason lesson is on a very popular logic fallacy called CHERRY PICKING or The Fallacy of Incomplete Evidence. Most of you are pretty familiar with the term “cherry picking” as the term is often used by people to attempt to dismiss an argument when they choose not to agree with […]

Filed Under: blog, Logic And Reason Tagged With: bias, cherry picking, fallacy, logic, logic and reason lessons, texas sharpshooter

Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson: Reversing the Burden of Proof

February 4, 2022 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

Bunker Logic and Reason tidbit. Not a full lesson. Just a quick morsel. One of the most frustrating things in the current anti-logic climate. It happens in every comment section… It is a form of “begging the question” that is also used to reverse the burden of proof: Post: *Correctly states that the government is […]

Filed Under: blog, Logic And Reason Tagged With: cognitive biases, logic, logic and reason lessons, thinking

Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson: DICTO SIMPLICITER FALLACY (Sweeping Generalization)

February 1, 2022 by Michael Bunker 1 Comment

Today’s Bunker Logic and Reason lesson is the hilariously named Dicto Simpliciter Logical Fallacy, which is more reasonably known as the SWEEPING GENERALIZATION FALLACY. This one is a fallacy you will see just about everywhere on social media every day. First, let me say that, despite what you’ve been told, all generalizations are not fallacious. […]

Filed Under: blog, Logic And Reason Tagged With: dicto simpliciter, logic, logic and reason lessons, logic fallacies, sweeping generalization

Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson: DEADBEAT BIAS

January 31, 2022 by Michael Bunker 1 Comment

Today’s Bunker Logic and Reason Lesson is on a cognitive bias I will call DEADBEAT BIAS. This one will take some explaining, so buckle up. Here we go! Many people are familiar with the Cognitive Bias known as DUNNING-KRUGER (or The Dunning-Kruger Effect.) Dunning-Kruger is a cognitive bias in which people who are ignorant about […]

Filed Under: blog, Food Preservation, Logic And Reason, Off Grid Tagged With: biases, cognitive biases, deadbeat, logic, logic and reason lessons

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