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So this is how Eg brainwashing works? Repeating a message strengthens the new pathways until the old connections are too weak to fire?
by manmal 8y ago
So this is how Eg brainwashing works? Repeating a message strengthens the new pathways until the old connections are too weak to fire?
- evincarofautumn 8y agoI would think any kind of training would have this effect. In mechanism—not purpose or ethics—brainwashing doesn’t strike me as all that different from ordinary practice.
- leeeeech 8y agoArguably, a single message would only affect a single pathway.
- manmal 8y agoAFAIK a single message causes a giant electrical and chemical thunderstorm in the brain, not only one excited single pathway?
- leeeeech 8y agoYou are right of course. But because a trivial message has many "layers" of "messages", according to semantic theory, it's often a single lie in a whole message packet.