BK

 Here’s a concise bullet-point gist of this passage on “intellectual fundamentalism”:

• Modern culture overestimates science: we assume most everyday mysteries are solved, but this may be illusory.
• Intellectual fundamentalism = extreme over-reliance on rational intellect, ignoring intuition, emotion, imagination, and other forms of cognition.
• Symptoms:
  
• Denial of validity of non-intellectual faculties.
• Cognitive dissonance ignored; selectively interprets evidence.
• Focuses on literal form of communication, missing intended meaning.
• Belief that all reality can be captured intellectually, despite no rational basis.
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• Social effects: frustrating interactions; alienation from nuance, symbolism, and metaphor.
• Psychological basis: a delusional defense mechanism to avoid anxiety over uncertainty and personal limitations.
• Extreme cases: may evolve into “hero syndrome,” trying to enforce intellectual conformity on others.

If you want, I can also make a punchy one-line tagline version for this concept like we did for consciousness and memory.