So each person's private worldview carves out a unique path through conceptual space. We block the assimilation of these memes using mental censors . Censorship is a computation that warps the worldview like a flaw in fabric. Censoring a meme disrupts its integration into the network of memes that constitute memory. Thus censorship has the long term effect of distorting how a meme will participate in the flow of conscious experience.
Censorship causes ones' worldview, including ones' sense of self, to fragment.
For example, we have all felt at one time or another the strain of telling a lie, or of living a lie as in by pretending to like someone we do not like. Often we are compelled to admit the truth later, if not to the person involved, then to someone else. We can live life mentally 'hopping' from one incomplete fragment to another, feeling stifled by the limitations of each. Meditative practices, immersion in projects, and substances that dissolve ego boundaries seem to align our personal worldview more closely with the impersonal, infinite possibilities of conceptual space, so that we are less inclined to censor and feel the effects of past censorship. As with the Soul Portraits, it was an event in the physical world that brought the full impact of this home to me.