Sunday, May 18, 2014

Elasticity of Proximal Development

It's time for another theory of questionable plausibility!

A few months ago, I was extremely busy and extremely stressed. School was overloading me with all the things and I wasn't sure if I was going to make it through one particular week. It was around that time when I started to get back into ye olde DOS games that had taken up so much of my time a few years ago. It was this rediscovered joy that led me to rewrite FleexCore and, later, create Abiathar.

Remembering this sequence of events led me to a theory: pushing the proximal development envelope causes an elastic-like shift backwards in interests. If this is true, it may be useful in some sort of weird psychotherapy research environment to access the emotional stability, logic engine (something I'll write about another day), or just interests of the past.

This one is way more likely than the sentient superspace, but still on the untestable/ridiculous side.

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