A couple of dozen philosophical principles were needed to develop Dianetics out of the super-complexity of human behaviour. E.g. introduction of an arbitrary, law of affinity. Particular use was made early on of the "Knowable and Unknowable" work of Herbert Spencer.
"Absolutism is a fine road to stagnation."
Mysticism and metaphysics, while not necessarily invalid, were not necessary in the construction of Dianetics and so were ignored (although previously studied).
Socrates was said to have a demon (inner voice) which predicted good or bad fortune and warned him if he was about to make a mistake.
Demons turned up in Dianetics research and could be created at will in drugged subjects.
A demon is a "parasitic circuit", an action in the mind which approximates another entity than self, and is derived entirely from words contained in engrams. It presents data to the analyzer as if spoken, i.e. a voice inside the head.
It is a safe assumption that almost every aberree has at least one demon circuit.
Demon circuits are "parasitic" because they "compartment off" some part of the analyzer (i.e. are able to do analytical computation outside the awareness of "I").
It is possible to set up a demon circuit using the entire analyzer, leaving "I" on a tiny and forlorn shelf, entirely dependent on the demon for his thinking.
A demon circuit is an engram, there includes the normal mechanisms such as pain, reduction of intellect and eventual illness of one sort or another.
The most dangerous demon circuits are those which contain a seemingly all-powerful exterior entity, which would solve all problems and answer every want.
Fully keyed in this makes a spineless puppet of "I" and, in the presence of other engrams, results in serious insanity.
Other engram command types (occlusions, compulsions, etc.) can also be embodied in demons, although "proper" demons are those that seem to speak to the person.
(The lock, seen as "mental anguish", has been blamed as the cause of aberration in other studies.)
There is a power of choice exercised in the reactive mind about which engrams will be used: "the happy little moron who runs the engram bank".
Where possible, it ties up analytical mind circuits in service to engrams (thus creating "demons").
This is the other source of attrition (in addition to analytical shutdown covered earlier) of the individual's analytical power, totalling to perhaps 98% loss.
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