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 Nine 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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It's unclear whether parasitic processing and reciprocal narrowing are the same thing or two component parts of spiralling

Parasitic Processing
“The very processes that make you adaptively intelligent also make you vulnerable to self-destructive behaviour.”

We use adaptive heuristic shortcuts to zero in to the relevant/crucial information. After a bad event, your brain immediately tries to anticipate future events like it. This can cause a downwards spiral.

Like a parasite it takes up life within you and it takes life away from you. It causes you to lose your agency and to suffer.