Case Study: Philosophical Resistance as Core Belief Immunity

This case study documents an extended philosophical exchange that demonstrates the Core Belief Immunity mechanism in real-time. As Sergent (2025) documents, Core Belief Immunity refers to "the systematic tendency of adult human minds to quarantine information that threatens foundational beliefs about existence, identity, mortality, or social order" through automatic isolation rather than conscious resistance. The subject (designated "Subject AF" for anti-foundationalist) engaged for multiple hours with arguments challenging foundational beliefs about epistemology and the nature of certainty, exhibiting the characteristic pattern of quarantine through serial objection cycling rather than direct engagement.