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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Parasitic processing is the agent, and reciprocal narrowing is the arena

Desire synthesis is the agent, and worldview synthesis is the arena

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

John Vervaeke described it as “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.

Reciprocal Narrowing
The concept derives originally from Marc Lewis as a model of addiction

Parasitic processing is the agent, and reciprocal narrowing is the arena

Reciprocal narrowing is your worldview becoming more narrow and spiralled in reaction to parasitic processing

It is not a pathology, just a narrowing of the brain