Messing with thresholds
We have many programs of different lengths, from just one rule per program up to hundreds and thousands of them. We can always attach one more rule to a sequence as long as we have enough free memory to store everything.
Our reality checkers tell us if a program works as expected or not. If it doesn't work, we replace it. But first, we have to reduce the feedback to a binary choice. We need a threshold.
Apparently, humans have a standard threshold for this operation. We never really measured it, but we do seem to behave in similar ways, so it's natural to assume that we have it.
What if we raise the bar? Programs that work well, but maybe have a minor flaw or two, will be discarded. Long-term plans rarely work out exactly as we expect, so you'll likely reject all of them and fallback to juggling with small tasks instead.
If it works, you repeat it. If it doesn't work, you replace it. Repeat. Replace. Repeat. Repeat. Replace. Replace. Repeat. A-a-a! Repeat! Repeat! Replace! Repeat! A-a-a-a-a! Replace!
Does it sound like ADHD? It kind of does. You can't concentrate on serious tasks. You do something all the time. You easily fall into recurring, almost addiction-like, loops, without any long programs to fit between their iterations.
What if we lower the bar? Every program works now. You don't discard anything. You never replace programs that don't fit in our reality. You can't learn from your own mistakes.
It's not an intellectual disability in a conventional sense, but rather a quintessence of stubbornness that will kill you. You'll struggle with walking outside, picking things up, and even with regulating basic functions of your own body.
I'm not sure if we have any specific diagnosis for this in ICD. Similar symptoms appear in relation to various diseases, but it's hard to isolate and validate them at the moment.
However, in our context, it looks a bit like that missing disease, the lack of free will, in its final stage. You can't change anything anymore. You're stuck. Is this the one? Even if it's not, we should expect such a bizarre condition anyway.
Both these extremes don't change the direction of behavior. Patterns are intact. Memory is also fine. We shouldn't see any logical conflicts or dissociations. Your hardware is fully functional, but messed up thresholds can bring misjudgments to the process of decision-making and affect your further development.
We definitely need to properly measure our default settings and find a way to reset them.