Overview

Demoneurology (a portmanteau of demon and neurology, and a pun on demonology) is a set of ideas studied by Joshua Currows during his time with the Xeno-Organism Research Group. It extrapolates Emma Thorsby's work on manifestation to the realm of negative emotions and memories, speculating a process by which an entity within a memory may enter a state of autocatalytic evolution, extending itself outside the initial bounds of its inception. Currows dubbed these entities demons, and went on to develop a theory regarding their creation and perpetuation.

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Basics

Emma Thorsby's theory of manifestation, as well as Margaret Macari's contentious speculations regarding the zero-point field are taken as postulate. These concepts are then used to study the contents of memories tied to strong negative emotions. It is common for the behavior of characters within these memories to be emotionally influenced, usually simply through exaggerated physical features or enhanced aggression. Currows notices that these characters, when projected onto others' perception, will tend to reenforce the emotion that spawned them. This results in a feedback mechanism of emotions reproducing themselves through their influence on minds. It is nontrivial, but considered likely, that this process is subject to darwinian selection on an accelerated timescale. It is thought by Currows to be capable, under special circumstances, of generating intelligent agents.

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