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A Video Game for your Mind2024-10-14

Video games are very popular nowadays, and have reached such high production values that they are becoming practically indistinguishable from reality. They thus have become highly addictive, with people spending many hours a day playing them, which is not great for real life achievements. Philosophically, some technologists are speculating that we live in a simulation, we are a video game of a more advanced civilization.

Like any technology, such things could be used for good also. One particular aspect my teams are interested in is building each person’s Mindscape (mental landscape), based on quantitative psychological, sociological, and biological measures.

While we are starting to have the pieces in place to do this, it is still not the immersive experience some games are nowadays. It is more like the first-generation games used to be, simple but compelling. By entering data in an app that we developed, Life x Mind, you can each day add to and refine your own Mindscape cloud, the virtual 3D representation of how your mind works. And you can see which Mind Type(s) you predominantly are, and become over time, with changes in your thought process, lifestyle, treatments. Know thyself, improve thyself!