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.
Mark Finnell and the AI Avatar of a Dead Boy
Background Processes are the assumptions running underneath your awareness — the ones you didn't install on purpose, you just absorbed. Mark Finnell had spent 20 years with an unexamined assumption: that technology is the story, and the human stuff is secondary. Sitting with the Joaquin avatar, that background process surfaced. He could suddenly see it running — the assumption that his job was to report on what the tool does, not what it does to us.