I think I worded it poorly. I think it is an “internally visible mental phenomena” for me. I do know how it feels and have some access to this thing. It’s different from hyperstition and different from “white doublethink”/”gamification of hyperstition”. It’s easy enough to summon it on command and check, yeah, it’s that thing. It’s the thing that helps to jump in a lake from a 7-meters cliff, that helps to get up from a very comfy bed, that sometimes helps to overcome social anxiety. But I didn’t generalise from these examples to one unified concept before.
And in the cases where I sometimes do it, my skill issues are due to the fact that the access is not easy enough:
I can’t do it constantly, it takes several seconds and eats attention.
I can’t reliably remember to do when it’s most important—in highly stressful situations or when my attention is too occupied with other stuff.
Some internal processes (usually—strong negative emotions) can override it by uploading more powerful image into the script, so I follow it instead, even while understanding that it’s worse.
Also it doesn’t really work for long period of time from one uploading. (So it works best when returning to default course of action after initial decision would be hard/impossible/obviously silly/embarassing/weird.)
Do you think I’m wrong and this is a different thing?
Thanks for your concern!
I think I worded it poorly. I think it is an “internally visible mental phenomena” for me. I do know how it feels and have some access to this thing. It’s different from hyperstition and different from “white doublethink”/”gamification of hyperstition”. It’s easy enough to summon it on command and check, yeah, it’s that thing. It’s the thing that helps to jump in a lake from a 7-meters cliff, that helps to get up from a very comfy bed, that sometimes helps to overcome social anxiety. But I didn’t generalise from these examples to one unified concept before.
And in the cases where I sometimes do it, my skill issues are due to the fact that the access is not easy enough:
I can’t do it constantly, it takes several seconds and eats attention.
I can’t reliably remember to do when it’s most important—in highly stressful situations or when my attention is too occupied with other stuff.
Some internal processes (usually—strong negative emotions) can override it by uploading more powerful image into the script, so I follow it instead, even while understanding that it’s worse.
Also it doesn’t really work for long period of time from one uploading. (So it works best when returning to default course of action after initial decision would be hard/impossible/obviously silly/embarassing/weird.)
Do you think I’m wrong and this is a different thing?