The clearest and most relevant examples are aspects of personality that are essentially elaborate coping mechanisms for either avoiding danger or manipulating others into certain states and behaviors.
These type of 'agendas' exists fractally, i.e., on multiple scales. Most ideological or political agendas would fit this mould. Even within a single person, there are a lot of memes attempt to dominate the entire mind, at the cost of everything else. Quite parasitic.
The most common architecture is a type of a finite game (to use terminology from James Carse) that uses significant amount of energy/computation/emotion to sustain itself at the players' expense. The players slide into get trapped in a sort of 'choice-less' mode about continuing to play.
For me personally, a lot of these patterns revolve around people-pleasing or feeling a compulsion to explain or justify things to others.
Great work, Rajeev! This piece went deep, happy to see how it turned out
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Can you give an example of ‘agendas that are irrelevant...in my driver’s seat’?
The clearest and most relevant examples are aspects of personality that are essentially elaborate coping mechanisms for either avoiding danger or manipulating others into certain states and behaviors.
These type of 'agendas' exists fractally, i.e., on multiple scales. Most ideological or political agendas would fit this mould. Even within a single person, there are a lot of memes attempt to dominate the entire mind, at the cost of everything else. Quite parasitic.
The most common architecture is a type of a finite game (to use terminology from James Carse) that uses significant amount of energy/computation/emotion to sustain itself at the players' expense. The players slide into get trapped in a sort of 'choice-less' mode about continuing to play.
For me personally, a lot of these patterns revolve around people-pleasing or feeling a compulsion to explain or justify things to others.