Cognitive biases and cognitive dissonance simply is not the same thing.
Pleasure, believing because it feels good, is a common cognitive bias that has nothing what-so-ever do to with holding two contradictory positions as true at the same time, thus it simply is not cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance can't even be considered a bias or a subset of cognitive bias in the majority of cases, it is considered by some to be a theoretical cause of some cognitive bias but this is not a very popular idea amongst rationalists or psychologists, that's fairly understandable, holding two contradictory positions as true simultaneously is not so much a bias as it is a mental error.
You could consider cognitive dissonance to be caused by a cognitive bias in some circumstances, such as fr0d0's belief that God is both 100% mortal and immortal, a striking example of cognitive dissonance that is caused by his cognitive biases.
I am personally of the opinion that CD is caused by CBs, rather than the other way around. CD is not present in most CBs however.
Pleasure, believing because it feels good, is a common cognitive bias that has nothing what-so-ever do to with holding two contradictory positions as true at the same time, thus it simply is not cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance can't even be considered a bias or a subset of cognitive bias in the majority of cases, it is considered by some to be a theoretical cause of some cognitive bias but this is not a very popular idea amongst rationalists or psychologists, that's fairly understandable, holding two contradictory positions as true simultaneously is not so much a bias as it is a mental error.
You could consider cognitive dissonance to be caused by a cognitive bias in some circumstances, such as fr0d0's belief that God is both 100% mortal and immortal, a striking example of cognitive dissonance that is caused by his cognitive biases.
I am personally of the opinion that CD is caused by CBs, rather than the other way around. CD is not present in most CBs however.
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