One value of simulation is that knowledge of outcomes is learned
without the risks of performing the actions. Indeed, some theorists
now propose that the function of explicit, conscious memory
is to simulate future, potential actions (Schacter&Addis, 2007).
The film Frozen seems to have been patterned after the idea of simulating future potential actions. The problem which I have complained about frequently has not been the idea of simulating but more of how to cope with the entirety of the simulation, like dialogue and other aspects of a film like Frozen. I have encountered time and again this problem. Games that simulate sports seem to be effective at helping people optimize performance but they rarely employ troublesome dialogue nor are they interrupted by advertising. Does the fear of an incident keep people from re-enacting it or from re-creating it? In Post Traumatic Stress Disorder A Clinical Review, authors state that re-enactment of a traumatic event goes on until the victim gains mastery. One would think this to also be true for those trying to overcome various impulses as well. How does this help the Type T, risk taking personality? Is there such a personality at all? Do we all have that potential? Do most of us just project or suppress or repress those tendencies and the “risk takers” are really just acting out someone else’s desires?
Isn’t mimicry really just the unsuppressed, unrepressed brain, having processed some behavior and simply acting out that behavior, ridding it from its memory banks? One would have to view again those actions and keep reviewing them rather than acting them out to prevent them from creating an impulse that could be acted on later. I think it is that which is stored in the memory that would be the most troublesome.
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