A New Path Through Cognitive Gridlock AMORITAS 22 min read · Nov 17, 2025 10 We live in an era shaped by unprecedented access to information and yet unprecedented levels of disagreement. Conversations that once aimed toward truth now easily collapse into tribal positioning, where identity and allegiance overshadow evidence. In this climate, even good-faith discussions become strained by a pervasive cultural anxiety: the fear that accepting new information means surrendering one’s personal worldview. Cognitive dissonance, the discomfort we feel when confronted with information that contradicts our beliefs, has become a defining psychological tension of modern discourse. To address this growing divide, I propose a simple but powerful innovation:  collaborative question-making . This method invites two or more people (or groups) with opposing views to work together to construct one single, precise question that they will submit to an AI system. The crucial component is the pre-...