Spiralling

Spiralling is a phenomenon where the mind incorrectly identifies something as being relevant and reacts with a value cascade on it. It is a natural error that happens from relevance realization systems going awry in the minds of sapient beings.

It is one of the Seven Plagues.

Spiralling is not to be confused with mere temptation. Temptation merely brings people off the path of firmlaw while Spiralling causes people to get stuck around a certain thing.

The vaccine for Spiralling is Counter-Spiralling.

Anything can cause Spiralling, but psychohazards which especially cause spiralling are called maelstroms

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Parasitic processing is anxiety that makes your thinking more rigid, and reciprocal narrowing is narrowing your cognitive arena in response