Or unscientific woo...or something else...
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Keep It Real wrote:My term - probs not great. ...
Sacrifice Holograms – where one has a very bad habit, but "unconsciously" deduces there MUST be a powerful reason to continue with that habit due to the fact one DOES continue. ...
Keep It Real wrote:I think it's quite a tricky concept to grasp, and I probs didn't do a great job of explaining it in the OP. I'll try and put it another way. In the back of the "addict's" mind there's a lightning fast, invisible heuristic which leaps into their consciousness whenever they tempted to do their bad habit, and think "but it's BAD!" The heuristic SH says to them, after lurching up from it's slimy cellar "But there must be a HUGE reason to live this habit due to the fact there are such HUGE reasons to desist!" No specifics as to what the HUGE reason to continue is - it is, afterall, just a hologram, but the addict shrugs and goes about their bad habit, feeling the forces of will are balanced. The nasty little bastard SH has, of course slithered back into its dank, dark hiding place in the back of the addict's mind.
Coll story in any case
Keep It Real wrote::dunno: you're just describing psychology, in that case ; )
SH's are a specific type of emotional reasoning, perhaps, and thanks for pointing that out Fal, V educational, although TBH the definition of exactly what constitutes an emotion is extremely problematic by my mind. I think SHs are sufficiently distinct to deserve their own term and description however either way IMO.
Yes Newolder - the term ain't great...hologram is a cool word though "Negative Motivational Holograms" perhaps...better?
Keep It Real wrote:One sees them in one's mind's eye, no?
Keep It Real wrote:OK, but basically less substance than a single packet of instant noodles, and, difinitavely, FAAAAR less than they appear to. Anyway, other terms...Motivational Ghosts. Motivational Spooks.
Keep It Real wrote:OK, but basically less substance than a single packet of instant noodles, and, difinitavely, FAAAAR less than they appear to. Anyway, other terms...Motivational Ghosts. Motivational Spooks.
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