Understanding Life Through Structured AI-Illustration Using PTSD

PTSD, a psychiatric disorder of interest to local town officials coping with the effects of exposures to violence among many of the town's poorer citizens.Could Mind Genomics, and its AI components, Idea Coach, provide the user with new types of information, The Historical BackgroundThe approach presented here evolved over the 30-year span from the early 1990's.At that time author Howard Moskowitz and colleague Derek Martin had been expanding the scope of concept testing by creating what was then called IdeaMap [7], later to evolve to Mind Genomics [8].The ingoing vision was to democratize the acquisition of insights into two ways, one by a new way of thinking about insights, the other by the vision of DIY, first at one's own computer, and then on the internet.Up to the introduction of IdeaMap researchers tested new ideas by one of two ways.The first was called 'promise' testing, or some variation thereof.The ingoing notion was that the researcher would come up with a number of different ideas, and test these among prospective consumers.The ideas could be alternative execution of a basic idea or proposition' (viz., rate each of these ideas for a new medicine), or the ideas could be even more basic (viz., rate the importance of each of these benefits of a new medicine, such as speed of relief, degree of relief, safety, etc.).These ideas could be rated in a study, but the basic notion is that the research could take a simple situation and have people rate facets of that situation, or take a simple offering, and have people rate ways of expressing what the offering could do.The methods were easy, the respondent in the study had no problem, but the test stimuli lacked context, depth, and the richness of everyday life.