Complex Psychological Disorders
( Dysatomikotita, Duxiong)
and their management
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Complex Psychological Disorders( Dysatomikotita, Duxiong)and their management |
With improved access to the workings of the human mind via direct neural linkage, neuropsychology, advanced modelling techniques and eventually uploading, the study of the human mind and the mind of other thinking bionts became a large and highly technical field. Psychological theories which could only be confirmed by subjective impression could be tested by direct measurement and reproduction of brain states on an experimental basis; but the world of the mind was found to far more complex and diverse than hitherto expected. However with the emergence of transapient minds with far greater complexity than even a biont brain, the complexity of the mind of a modosophont could be modelled and managed to a remarkable extent.
The
theory of Complex Psychological Disorders has its basis in an
application of First
Federation Age chaos theory to psychology. Though the
theory was disputed for many millenia, by 4000 a.t. it was widely
accepted by most experts due to the amount of experimental evidence,
and transapient support. Though the original paper named the phenomenon
Complex Psychological Disorders, various psychological and
philosophical schools have given it many other names such as pyronese
Dysatomikotita or the Penglaiese Duxiong.
In layman terms a CPD is a small group of tiny personality traits that
causes an individual problems in a way not immediately noticeable.
Diagnosis of a CPD requires the careful analysis of a century or more
of the individual's past, looking at episodes which have noticeable
decreases in any of the individual's preferred traits such as
happiness, productibility or loyalty to a specific creed. By analysing
the episodes, the diagnostics program may find that a group of tiny
personal trait are responsible for the episodes. Such traits can be
modelled, located within the individual's mind using neuropychological
techniques, and removed or modified, either physically or indirectly
using advanced memetic tools. The mental
manipulations to remove the CPD are so small, that even close friends
often don't notice the difference in a person's personality, after the
CPD has been removed. The only immediately noticeable change is the
reduction of unwanted symptoms and episodes.
While the traditional theory regarded CPDs in only an entirely personal
perspective, CPDs are also studied as a memetic tool. While the subject
of study cannot correctly be called Complex Psychological Disorders, it
is the same avoidance (or creation) of events by the manipulation of
unnoticeable personal traits that the memetists study. Due to the
amount of actors, the manipulation of these small traits can have
macroscopic societal effects, even if the change in behavior in each
individual is hardly noticeable. Though these studies are most often
used in memetic attack and defence, some polities or groups regard the
retaining of certain globally effecting traits as unlawful, and require
that they be removed.
There also are a number of Outer Volumes polities, such as the Penguin Confederation to rimward, which require the insertion of traits which they have projected to be beneficial to society. However, this practice is considered to be in conflict with the bill of sophont rights by most Sephirotic polities.
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