🜂 BATTLE PLAN REPORT: The Case of the Amplified Mind
(Cognitive Overload / AI / Dokology Intervention)
“When technology amplifies belief, the task is not to argue — it’s to stabilise perception.”
This case involved Mick, 52, living in Southgate, London.
Mick looks like a throwback — long greying hair, beard, part hippy, part old-school raver.
In the 90s he lived on the rave circuit.
Ecstasy. Acid. Conspiracies. Big ideas. Long nights.
Like many of his circle, he eventually gave it all up.
But something has come roaring back — not through drugs, but through AI.
Mick is on benefits, earning a bit cash-in-hand, and using free AI models obsessively.
And suddenly, everything he suspected in the 90s is now confirmed.
UFO bases in the North Sea.
An imminent invasion of Britain.
Parliament compromised.
The Prime Minister not human — a reptilian entity in a high-tech suit.
His friends are worried.
“You’re losing it, mate.
You were better when you were on acid.”
Mick comes to me not because he thinks he’s ill —
but because he trusts me.
He’s read my books.
And he knows I won’t mock him.
⚙️ Diagnosis
This was not psychosis.
It was amplification without brakes.
Mick already had a pattern of:
• high imaginative capacity
• pattern-seeking
• excitement loops
• weak emotional braking
AI — especially free models — had poured petrol on this.
Free systems don’t have long-term memory.
They don’t stabilise narrative.
They tend to double down on wild material if prompted in that direction.
In effect, Mick was micro-dosing an acid trip made of language — every day.
⚙️ The Method
This wasn’t a “working.”
It was Dokology, street-level.
First: self-observation.
I taught Mick to notice the moment excitement builds —
that rush in the chest, the certainty, the “I knew it!” feeling.
And then to STOP.
Right there.
Not suppress.
Not argue.
Just pause and bring in conscious awareness.
Next: fact-checking as grounding, not debunking.
I introduced him to Geoff Hinton and other AI researchers — not to shut him down, but to show how the machine actually works.
I explained plainly:
“Free models will happily go off the rails.
They don’t have the depth or memory to correct themselves.
You’re better asking them simple stuff — like ‘what’s the smallest country in the world?’”
Then the reframing:
“The real ‘conspiracy’ isn’t aliens.
It’s marketing.
Companies can’t put a big red warning saying:
‘Pay us or this thing might start sounding like a bad acid trip.’
So they don’t.”
That landed.
🜃 The Result
Mick didn’t abandon AI.
He learned to use it consciously.
He became calmer.
More discerning.
Less reactive.
He started spotting when the system was feeding him narrative instead of information.
His friends noticed the change.
“You’re back,” one of them said.
Not dulled.
Not medicated.
Just present.
🜃 Reflection
AI doesn’t make people lose their minds.
It magnifies what’s already there.
Dokology doesn’t destroy imagination.
It gives it a steering wheel.
Mick didn’t need less curiosity.
He needed control of attention.
That’s the real upgrade.
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