MindStretched Museum
One human machine. Billions of configurations.
An explanation for why people do things that make no sense.
Welcome
Guess what? The specimen under investigation is us.
Every person on Earth appears to be running the same basic contraption. It's called the Overreaction Machine.
The machine is the model of how humans make choices.
Why did they do that? Why did I know better and do it anyway? Why is she holding on to that grudge for years?
This answers the questions. Let's go.
What's Up
People do baffling things. They overreact to tiny events, ignore enormous ones, remember the same afternoon differently, refuse to change their minds, change their minds overnight, want things they never do, and confidently explain behavior that makes absolutely no sense from the outside.
MindStretched investigates what happened before the behavior appeared. What made you choose what you chose?
Explore the Machine
The Overreaction Machine is the hidden machinery that receives the world, predicts what happens next, commits to a future, produces behavior, explains what it just did, and uses the whole mess to prepare for next time.
This machinery turns what was happening into what this human did.
Once you can see the machinery, human weirdness stops looking quite so mysterious.
We have work to do.
Let's Be Classy
Someone won't let something go. Someone else forgot it by breakfast. One person needs to talk. Another needs the conversation to end. Two people experience the same event and somehow leave with different realities.
Those aren't explanations. They're evidence.
BEHAVIOR IS THE CLUE
How can one machine create several billion known specimens? Find out.
Go to Machine Classification >>>
Follow the classification tree as it becomes increasingly unhelpful.
Connections
The museum has side doors. Browse the full exhibit collection, meet the curator, or wander into the other places MindStretched has escaped to.
