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RE: Defining The Mind #2: Is Consciousness Divisible?
Wow I havent heard about the allergy thing. That is really interesting.
There are some psychologists who suggest that we all have multiple personalities. Buisness you and causual you, happy you and sad you all fighting for control. But these come with little dissassociation keeping them all pretty similar.
It isnt untill these personalities have a reason to dissassociate inorder to escape the trauma that we get the disorder. Escaping the trauma means the personalities are forced to build new lives with an incomplete set of memories. Which is why the personalities tend to be so different from eachother.
That's very interesting.
I agree that we have different personas depending on the situation that we are in or who we are with. We certainly tend to act differently around our co-workers vs our family vs our friends. There is an interesting book about that sort of thing called the self illusion. Its basically a tour through psychological research on identity, memory and overall how our brains function. Basically its overall message is that the "self" is constantly shifting, adapting and changing overtime and to fit the current situation. There is no permanent "self" though we tend to believe that there is.