Mind engineering, habit, and human nature

When it comes to forceful mind engineering (habitwashing/brain¬washing), there is no agent-environment feedback loop. Such a process mostly takes place in the societies whose ideologies, and the societal organizations are those of an authoritarian or a totalitarian kind. In such regimes, the most likely way for mind engineering is that of a forceful kind which leads only to degradation, decay, ignorance, self-destruction, and death.

Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Yueh-Ting Lee, Kenneth Stikkers, Matthew Brown, Yaroslav Shramko, David Gray, and Olga Dubey for the great comments and discussion. My thanks also go to Aynur Charkasova for the editorial support.

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