It is possible to build artificial relationships to someone’s mind targeting anything living or non-living without that he himself would have pursued such. It is easiest to arrange this, if that something don’t became more familiar with time and one can’t or won’t understand it profoundly. E.g. relationship to a teacher can stay similar for years, but when he finally tells a joke of some sort, everything suddenly changes. Building customized impression, which would be meant for one person’s mind only and which would arise strong emotions and would be done by multiple participants, may stay as some kind of foray or experiment. E.g. it had one-time, well-defined purpose like undirectly forcing some, non-suitable guy to leave his current job, but when tens or even hundreds of things are made to feel not-so-natural, then it is probably harassment or some kind of research.
It isn’t new to humans that they tend to be choosy about when and where they want to be seen and at what moment it makes most sense to say something for keeping their imago intact or enhancing it in preferred ways, but when they begin to understand better what kind of psychological theories and (neuro)biological facts creating impressions is based on, many might want to direct/control, how some others feel about certain things. Soon it becomes supplemented with social dimension and sharing of small tasks to multiple participants, so that they can affect some person in coordinated fashion. When they begin using computers systems for being more efficient and precise, they arrive to the point where from there’s no end to be seen for what they are doing, because it is just too much fun and they can also benefit from what they learn in their actual job, business etc.
When talking about relationships, stances and feelings connected to certain thing, one might too easily think that it would be about something that is independent of context like how people tend to think about associations. However, this is not the case. E.g. it might be so that in someone’s mind a name of a city arises certain kind of thoughts, which could be visualized with named circles connected to a larger circle having the name of a city inside it, if that person thinks that city from distance and in certain kind of context, but when that same person is driving toward that city, he feels it differently, because approaching that city warms up his thoughts differently than when he is still in the city where he left from. And while certains thoughs get warmed up (preactived) other gets displaced from "vicinity of consciousness".
Assuming that purpose of affecting would be targeted toward a person, who is not continuously separating from his daily thoughts, someone could design a plan containing set of well-defined things, which would be made known (and felt) to the target person by frequently combining surpriseness, strangeness, irritativeness, suggestions, timings etc. with appearing of a thing in his daily life, meaning that they could be brought back to his conscious mind in certain form. E.g. colors, gestures, words, symbols, landmarks, expressions, objects and sounds. Let’s imagine that Figure 1 illustrates those things (or atleast aids thinking). Words "could be brought back" are essential here as target person could experience these things normally, if he doesn’t feel that right now someone is trying to make him experience them in certain way. With time traces of affecting would fade away, but if he isn’t given enough time to relax, memories stay longer.
It is worth mentioning that e.g. some color like orange can not be understood much better unlike a human could be understood better, meaning that orange color is always just orange color, even with different surface or when seen together with different shadows, or when an orange item is seen to be consisted of atoms.
Figure 1 can be thought as some kind pool where from it can be choosen which of them would be attributed to certain participating person, who a target person perceives in a way that he never really becomes to know him any better (e.g. because of lack courage or physical distance). This part of the operation is typically carefully coordinated so that attributing could leave deep dopamine-based traces to target person’s mind. It is typical that they use surpriseness, strangeness, irritativeness, suggestions and timings, and all kinds of stuff scooped from learning theories. Context might be e.g. street, home, working place or shopping centre, but probably something that seems natural place for a participant to appear in. Amount of affecting times may be anything from few times to tens and hundreds. Also, it shouldn’t be seen as uncommon that they let target person to became aware how certain attributes and timing are used together so many times that target person begins to see them as stupid. But if only results matter, quality of operation wouldn’t matter that much. Making target person feel stressed is quite common way to upset target person’s ability to think flexibly (cognitive flexibility), which leads to him being more easily affected.
Undirect affecting happens when target person is e.g. in Internet and and unauthorized remote user (hacker with bad intentions) causes computer to act strangely at the moment, when there is something special to be seen on the screen (something from the mentioned pool of defined things that leads thoughts toward certain person). Consider pondering this: how can an unauthorized remote user watch in realtime what happens in fast-paced 3D-actionadventure game, knowing what happens next in the game and what lurks behind some corner.
More sophisticated the operation is, more certain it is that participants have different types of computer systems in their use beginning from databases for storing information to neural network based anylysis and from semiautomatic instructing of participants to predictive analytics. Web conferencing software? Sure. Data from sensors? Easy. Realtime video feed from local grocery? Negotiable. By reading Solved: how well-planned exposure sets affect thinking of a target person and If planted shortcut to a memory isn’t available, one’s thinking can be directed in phases it is possible to understand better, how customized impressions and feelings can be utilized for eliciting exact subsequent thoughts and feelings. More efficient the affecting is, greater the risk to the target person that his identity becomes brittle.
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