How to diminish the unpleasant feeling and to reduce “cognitive tension”
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When confronted with the Shakespeare Authorship (holding contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time) most scholars show little capacity to tolerate doubt or uncertainty.
A majority of admirers of Shakespeare’s work experience discomfort or a mental tension or stress (cognitive dissonance):
Greatly simplified, this cognitive tension is the result of a mismatch or imbalance (dissonance), between 2 (evolutionary) separate evaluating systems of our central nervous (brain) system, cooperating and steadily competing against each other:
1.) a phylogenetically much older, more stable or robust, much faster, more certain, decisive, and uncompromising, unspecific, archaic, pure "complementary"(binary),
Simplified Model of 2 phylogenetically differently
evolved evaluating brain systems
emotional/ limbic subcortical, less rational, evaluating system and
2.) a phylogenetically younger, less stable, slower, but more sophisticated,
, compromising, specific, complex, less complementary
, compromising, specific, complex, less complementary
more rational (neo-) cortical evaluating system.
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Depending upon the amount of functional cortical/subcortical human capacity the most feasible way to diminish the unpleasant feeling and to reduce “cognitive tension” between “the potential of the new and the security of the old“ is to correct or
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Depending upon the amount of functional cortical/subcortical human capacity the most feasible way to diminish the unpleasant feeling and to reduce “cognitive tension” between “the potential of the new and the security of the old“ is to correct or
reduce the imbalance between these 2 evaluating systems,
i.e. increasing and strengthening the "rational" system by intensifying perceptions, ,knowledge, associations and concepts which will inevitably entail your convictions, affects, moods and values of self assurance.-
The most important precondition is a basic fund of knowledge not only of Shakespeare's works but of all related contemporary literary genres/texts (-->List 1) and of all contemporary authors ( -->List 2) which are - contrary to earlier times - fully available Online nowadays.
I suppose there is no academic Shakespeare-Expert (let alone an Authorship-Expert) who unites a profound knowledge of at least 5-10 percent of this (Need-To-Know) textual information
List 1.-
(excerpt of title key words of Contemporary Book Genres)
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List 2
(excerpt of contemporary author names)
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