with most people, enabling them to access their full cognitive resources for interacting with the world is mostly a matter of enticing those resources out of the profound dissociation that the routine social practice of interpersonal torture has driven them into
it isn't the point is at the interconnects neural subsystems are oriented inward, toward inhibiting input — because input has hurt too much — instead of cooperating
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there is a lot of stuff going on in different parts of your brain all the time, in subsystems that came factory installed and subsystems that assembled themselves for particular purposes later these subsystems communicate with each other to a greater or lesser degree
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this degree is changeable, and when it changes downward the mechanism is neural inhibition, which is basically like turning down the volume on a neural connection like turning down the volume on a radio dissociation involves subsystems becoming more isolated
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generally because non-isolation is intolerable integrative changes move in the other direction a repetitive noise from outside interrupting your attention is the kind of thing i would call "distraction"; subsystems just doing their own thing isn't that
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