Interesting I didn't know Arnie had stated that. "only those with a high IQ can be hypnotised" I'll have to check it out and see if you are trying to suggest that he did....
Well "credibility goes out the window" when what a person says heads towards the window, I pause and think...maybe I didn't really understand the perspective or heaven forbid the choice of definition of the word or words in their statement, so maybe I should set aside my concept and open up the door of my mind to analytically understand while be careful to not become overcome by the rhetoric accompanying it. And since rhetoric has a strong component of addressing emotion, just maybe the emotion I carry inside of me, is repelling me from understanding some new perspective.... so yes...there is the window....and then there is what are we actually throwing out..?
To bad Arnie is not here to respond but anyhow.. I understanding him saying...that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis
"Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion. The term may also refer to an art, skill, or act of inducing hypnosis.[1]
Theories explaining what occurs during hypnosis fall into two groups. Altered state theories see hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance, marked by a level of awareness different from the ordinary conscious state.[2][3] In contrast, nonstate theories see hypnosis as a form of imaginative role enactment.
Whereas my emotionally packaged definition which I acquired through limited explanations over decades, was that hypnosis is like a steel pipe to which our minds are attached and subject completely and under the thumb of the operator be itself or another and through which we are fed 'whatever' and become fully the effect of.
Such absolutism is abhorent in the aspect that the 'whatever' might not be beneficial or eventually lead to wrong decisions and activities because of the theory that a good answer can only be the one that applies to the here and now scene.
I see 'undue influence' as a good alternative to sidestep the liability of previous conceptions of hypnosis.
My choice however is 'altered states of mind'.
Gottta go now as my skipping two meals and the hunger associated with it is hypnotizing me to drop this trance and go make a good solid meal and eat it.
talk to you again in a different state of mind..