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		fighterpilot on June 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Conspiracy: In Theory and Practice There's a biological/psychiatric dimension to all this. Dopamine levels in the brain are related to belief in unfounded conspiracy theories, which interestingly is also related to schizophrenia. It makes it difficult for the person to inhibit associations between things.

mistermann on June 30, 2021 [–]

Default human consciousness is chock full of bugs in cognition, it isn't just schizophrenics who can't think flawlessly.

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