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  Knut Sondre Sæbø criticized idea #3510.

In our book club today, @erik-orrje raised the issue of split personalities.

I’m wildly speculating here, but I wonder if split personalities could be the result of the price mechanism inside a mind being broken.

If the price mechanism is needed for different parts of the mind to communicate with each other, and this mechanism breaks down somehow, then the parts become isolated.

#3510·Dennis HackethalOP, about 1 month ago

It seems more plausible to me that this actually is a division of a mind. They often recall meeting each other in dreams (seeing the other alters from their local perspective within the dream). So it seems that the split goes further, and actually gives rise to different experiences within a mind. They live and experience from different perspectives, and start communicating with each other more like distinct minds. In split-brain patients, the left and right hemispheres can disagree on what clothing to wear in the morning, and physically fight over wearing a tie or not.