A personal question --
“Why would ‘similar minds’ or kin disagree about vaccinations?”
After all, the practice _has been a public health bedrock.
A clue --
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/are-we-living-in-the-age-of-info-determinism
> We’re used to thinking of information as being representational—that is, a piece of information represents reality, and might be true or false. But another way to look at information is to see it as a “social nexus” capable of putting people into “formation.” From this perspective, it doesn’t matter whether information is true or not.
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@freeschool
The essay ~describes a phenomenon which can be labeled as sociological and statistical. ('Social nexus' smells like a mathematical model.)
Information blips serve a "social nexus" function; they attract social groups into formation.
Info-blips used to be regarded as representational. The essayist is recognizes info blips are attractors to social formations and micro ideologies.
I associate the mimetic behavior of social beings with 'social nexus'.
#attentioneconomy
#mimesis
#introduction