Disinfolklore as Cognitive Perception Theory

The idea of Disinfolklore galaxies spreading through our biological and computational neural networks like translucent triffids rewilding the Garden of Eden is very important to the idea of Disinfolklore, which is also a cognitive, a theory of cognitive perception, and how our emotions are used through stories to hack our rational thought systems. So there are biological neural networks. And the idea of the computational neural networks, of course, those of us dealing with Twitter and X are constantly being trolled by computational neural networks.

Source: Pattern Recognition: Perennial characters in Disinfolklore

Frames Disinfolklore not merely as a description of propaganda but as a theory of cognitive perception — how stories exploit the interface between biological and computational neural networks to bypass rational thought. The “translucent triffids rewilding the Garden of Eden” is one of the author’s most vivid metaphors.

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