Mental Model 2

Mental Model 1

The Kingdom Model (Simple version)



<Bits> Filly, what would a mentally "breaking" file DO?

<Filly|InClass2> hmm...
<Filly|InClass2> have you read my blog?
<Bits> No...
<Bits> But please continue.
<Filly|InClass2> Okay, imagine your head is a... lets go with a kingdom.
<Filly|InClass2> Different towns are different functions, the roads are the normal connections between them.
<Filly|InClass2> Now, if you use those roads all the time, then you might become unused to just walking off the track and into the woods.
<Filly|InClass2> So, the point of such a file would be to throw you off the normal paths, get you lost.
<Filly|InClass2> and then, thoroughly lost, instead of instantly returning to your normal paths when the trance is over (or during), you are forced to start building new paths.
<Filly|InClass2> So for the listener, you are at the end of the file hopefully blank and receptive, because you can't think as you normally would
<Bits> So the listener would be ready to accept most suggestion.
<Filly|InClass2> Yes, you are more receptive to suggests of how to walk and what to build nearby.
<Filly|InClass2> Ssorry to devolve into metaphor, it is the nature of language that the mind is most openly described in familiar terms
<Bits> I understand.
<Bits> What I'm not quite sure of is how it would happen.
<CallMeDash> Naw that was actually a really good metaphor
<Filly|InClass2> Which is why I try to explain mental models on my blog.  To establish common language.
<Bits> Wouldn't the new paths intersect with some of the old ones eventually?
<Bits> And the listener would fall back into their previous habits, maybe.
<Filly|InClass2> They better, Bits.  Mostly likely, you wouldn't be so far off the path.  Eventually, the noise of traffic or nearby cities would draw you back.
<Filly|InClass2> Otherwise the listener would be building entirely new.
<Filly|InClass2> Such a file would need a trigger, or some other link, a small path that would be normally ignored but might eventually lead the listener back to their old ways
<Filly|InClass2> and if done well, it would be one they could use to return on later trips.
<CallMeDash> Like a tiny little dirt road that's hidden by a cornfield or something?
<Filly|InClass2> sure, that works.
<Bits> What I'm failing to understand, and this isn't any fault of yours, is how you cause the mind to get lost in itself.
<CallMeDash> Lose yourself in the moment
<Filly|InClass2> Confusion, misdirection.  To use the metaphor, you make a false road, or you make something very interesting appear in the woods and have them follow it.

<Bits> I think I would need an extremely long file really get lost in my own mind.
<CallMeDash> ^
<Filly|InClass2> ^
<Filly|InClass2> The other thing is, such a file would have to avoid places you've already been to in your mind, otherwise you would just make a new dirt road to a place you've already been... (had to go to class)