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"The actual dollar cost and the mental transaction cost of stopping and deciding if 'X' is worth the price.
As the dollar cost drops, the mental transaction cost becomes a larger percentage of the overhead to making a decision.
There's still the "mental transaction fee" of deciding whether a few moments' entertainment is worth even a tiny sum, but that's another problem.
Many schemes suffer from the problem of "mental transaction costs"—the additional time and effort required by users to decide, for example, whether a blog post is actually worth three cents before clicking on a link.
Many tracts and blog entries have been written about why the concept can't work because of mental transaction costs and the like.
Not surprisingly, those who think that tropes play the role of causal relata and of causal mechanisms in causation generally also believe that they play that role in mental physical causal transactions specifically.
Steve Outing at Editor and Publisher has an excellent overview of Kachingle and other companies trying to create payment models "with no effort or 'mental transactions' necessary".
Today, commercial organizations and governments are routinely using algorithms based on the big data collected from the daily digital transactions to predict behavior, mental state, and to categorize and profile people (Pasquale 2015).
The transaction involved the preparation of a mental state at which theta frequency (4 – 8 Hz) EEG waves became manifest.
According to federal regulations, anyone buying a firearm has to fill out a Firearms Transaction Record, which includes questions about citizenship, criminal history, and mental health.
The 2013 legislation would have made such transactions subject to background checks to ensure that buyers did not have criminal records or mental illness.
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