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 machine. It's called the Overreaction Machine.
Inside the museum, you can walk through the machine, examine its parts, and compare human configurations.
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.
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.
Once you can see the machinery, human weirdness stops looking quite so mysterious.
Go to the Overreaction Machine >>>
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.
