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multiple selves

We read the (First Person Plural) article some time ago, and while the theory has gained some popularity in recent years, it doesn't seem to hold up. Certainly, humans react differently in different situations, and place varying emphasis on memory or circumstance according to what is occurring or their own personality. But the very fact that two -different- humans, (or, even two different people within one body), might experience or remember the same situation differently, would seem more to indicate that the human mind is much more adaptive or flexible than a typical personality test gives it credit for, rather than that it is a different self, so to speak, going through the pain or pleasure. Certainly, for true multiples (And everyone else) - any 'self' requires self awareness.
Simply adapting to the dental chair and then adapting to ballet class is not the same as John Doe & Mary coming out of the movie theater with different perceptions/reviews on it, etc, or multiple self-aware people co-existing in one body.

- Amonite

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