Thought streams that loop in on themselves are not intended for communication to someone where A and B are roughly located and a bridge of platforms is built to span the distance. Looping ideas are more like dancing or music, they don't have a 'point'. They don't go anywhere.
For coherent ideas at larger scales you need more people. A level 6 chain is like "What is means to be American/Chinese/Indian". A level 7 chain is probably an entire field like Math/Physics. A level 8 chain is the whole of human knowledge and level 9 is The Human Experience.
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At each higher level you get to greater and greater and more and more abstract "souls".
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There are also some other shapes you can create with links that might be more interesting metaphors. E.g ideas can be weaved into "chainmail” as a defense or a "whip" as a weapon.
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A chainmail of ideas is like a maze. You're still going round and round like a dance but you're getting dizzy and the dance isn't ending. It creates anxiety, stress, and paranoia rather than fun.
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A whip of ideas goes from bigger to smaller. It's very hierarchical with subordinate ideas following the lead of the higher ideas. This gives the root idea a very long "reach" like a tentacle and also feels somewhat alien and proby.
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An idea that doesn't know what to do with itself just flails about in awkward and often destructive movements. It doesn't know how to "dance" because it's seeking a "point". It's either overly invasive trying to get 'into you' or just spreads like a virus.
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A "bad" idea is an idea that cannot complete a hero's journey, thus becoming a villain. If every journey is a hero's journey then a "bad" ideas is just an idea that has no "Life". It doesn't know what to do with itself.
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