Background Processes
The fears, survival patterns, and old logic that keep running in your mind whether you notice them or not. Some were installed by you, some by your environment, some by people who raised you. This setting is not about stopping them — it is about whether you even know they are there.
Maria Paz Gutierrez and the Song from the Motorcycle Diaries
Background Processes are the fears and old logic running in the mind that the person doesn't always consciously notice. Maria Paz Gutierrez had been running a background process that the world — especially Latin America — was dangerous. This belief wasn't loudly held; it had been quietly installed by years of news exposure and never examined. The goosebumps interrupted that process long enough for her to actually see it and recognize it as a distortion of her real experience.