a few lines of code in a computer program can be fatal but bearing in mind the analogy between brain and computer (not that remarkable as one was designed by the other to fulfil the same functions) surely a well constructed aphorism can do the same.. e.g. 'prevention is better than a cure' is obviously untrue in most cases but is taken as gospel.
2007-02-11 10:26:01 · 14 answers · asked by mark b 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes - we do it all the time. Advertising, newspapers, clairvoyants, mind readers etc set up trigger words and images which can be fired off by a second stimulus. To see just how this works watch Derren Brown.
The best 'anti-viral treatment is NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). It is all about this.
2007-02-11 22:03:32 · answer #1 · answered by Freethinking Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the end of "until I find you" by John Irving.
Yes, in psychology there are "triggers" that can cause a state of either happiness, or negative feeling even destructive behaviour. I think they can be called viruses, but there are three big differences with computer viruses:
1. they were not implanted by someone or by some program, they rather come from hidden fears, obsessions etc. in the patients past.
2. they have no malevolent nature.
3. there is no identified "anti-virus" treatment.
2007-02-11 19:25:04 · answer #2 · answered by jacquesh2001 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
possibly in 1000 3 hundred and sixty 5 days with a very diverse technologies. The procedures used to create treatment for ailments makes it confusing to integrate them as this would neutralize their effects.Plus it is going to additionally help in emergence of resistant lines. Plus probable it may be very high priced, why purchase a great cleansing soap mutually as all you go with is wash your palms. plus thinking of mixed area effects! See what I recommend.. besides the undeniable fact that there are some mixed vaccines like MMR and DPT, yet they provide super reward of being at the same time. Plus if there's a single treatment for each little thing then you definately'll positioned docs out of corporation .. :)
2016-11-03 04:35:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They only become viral when we accept them unquestioningly. Everything from catchphrases and old wives tales to rumours and assumptions based on half truths can lodge in the subconscious and become accepted as real truth without passing through the conscious, "sensible" areas of the brain.
The only way to beat it is to question everything, especially your own mind!
Oh, and on a related note... It now seems that even our memories aren't what we believe them to be! Every time we take a memory out of the "mental filing cabinet" and look at it we unwitingly contaminate it with our thoughts and feelings at that moment. So what is "refiled" is actually different from the originasl memory.
This is one of the reasons our memories of childhood are so rosy. We are only accessing the good ones and remembering them fondly, painting an even rosiers glow over the "truth".
So I guess not even our memories are to be trusted!
2007-02-11 13:16:54 · answer #4 · answered by Andrea S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, luckily there is a cure designed to shut all the babbling off: meditation. If you don't disease at one level oranother will follow. Just look at the "sad" state of the species at its present level of consciousness ;-)
2007-02-11 10:33:20 · answer #5 · answered by drakke1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hurtful words said to you can have a lasting effect like a virus cause they grow and fester in your mind and try to destroy you... the cure is.. delelope a hard skin and put two fingers up to the the verbal trash that placed the words there
2007-02-11 10:36:45 · answer #6 · answered by tikketiboo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deep question!
The answer lies in many places, its not where you look but what you find. You ask for a cure but get only more questions, this drives us all to find what we seek only to fail but pick ourselves up and carry on as if nothing had ever happened.
2007-02-12 14:37:31 · answer #7 · answered by Grog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"As a (wo)man thinks in her/his heart so is (s)he."
Thoughts determine the direction of a person's life. That is why it is so necessary for a person not to allow "virus" thoughts like "I don't matter, I don't have a purpose, no one cares etc.
However we have the power to fight the "virus" thoughts that float through our brain by using God's word in the Bible to redirect those thoughts into positive affirmations such as, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" (Philipians 4:13) God created each person to succeed in life but that person has to be wiling to change their mind and words into the direction God has for them.
2007-02-11 10:34:49 · answer #8 · answered by openheaven 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe so. ever since i watched the Discovery Health Channel, i've had the phrase "gangrenous foot" stuck in my head, and i use it frequently in daily conversation.
on a more serious note, those who have tourette syndrome often have this problem. one such individual, who appeared on Oprah, often blurted the words "coffee" and "metal."
2007-02-11 10:36:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got the phrase "ramalamdingdong" caught in my head once and I ended up running through the streets naked. wait that was the beer ramalamadingdong light
2007-02-11 10:30:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋