I came across a theory today that came to a dead-end, but I found the premise to be profoundly intriguing regardless, so I'm posting it here, just cuz, k?
The idea came to me while laying down on a couch and fantasizing about the idea of mind-control via suggestion. Don't ask me why I was thinking about that, just know that I was thinking about it in a philosophical sense because the concept came to me while I was writing a story. But then, out of the blue, the idea seemed plausible, in fact, not only did it seem plausible, it seemed obvious, obvious to the degree that everyone on this planet is already mind-controlling everybody else without ever even quite realizing it.
Not to discredit free will, that's not what I'm getting at here, the thing is, it's aaaalmost impossible to gauge people's reactions, let alone the outcome of social situations, but the power of suggestion could conceivably allow virtually anyone to get virtually anything they wanted should they play their cards right. Sure, this is common knowledge to some degree, but the process I stumbled upon intrigued me enough to write this down, so just hear me out, alright?
First, the world is a complicated place, and operates at a level of detail so miniscule and undetected that we as humans willingly give into the idea of chaos theory, that forces so small and seemingly random are at work that even the smallest details can escalate into something big and unforseeable. This happens all the time, at any given situation, at any given time, the game can change. So if you accept this and you react accordingly and remain on top of the changing circumstances, you should be ahead of the curve and be able to 'ride the wave' in a sense, and be able to shift any circumstance to your advantage. This too, is fairly common knowledge, many martial arts are based off this principle, and I'm sure the world of self-help books is familiar with it as well, but there's more.
Human intuition is a strong ability, a person can subconsciously do things that far exceeds his own personal expectations. It's not too outside the realm of feasability for the average man to completely recite word for word a book he just read. Not likely, but possible, the circumstances and neural chemistry required to make this occur is specific at best, but human intuition does take over from time to time and usually in moments where the human is relaxed and kind of 'unaware' of his situation, which basically means the less he allows his consciousness to fuck things up, the better his subconscious is at handling a task.
So the theory I came up with is this: If a man can mentally block out virtually everything except the task at hand, he could theoretically manipulate his environment, including the consciousness of others, to work with him. The idea seemed to lend to itself fairly well, it requires a certain calm attitude and meditation to be able to fixate on present changing circumstances anyway that the subconscious should be able to do it's thing uninterrupted.
Food for thought, these are shots in the dark, maybe this is nonsense, maybe it's common knowledge, I dunno, I just thought it was interesting. :)
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