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The many people inside your brain?
#14541667 - 05/31/11 04:57 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Inspired by OCs post and this great interview I heard on NPR Open Air today. http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/
I think you will really enjoy listening to the interview.
OK do you think there is an I or a legion of personalities vying for dominance in the brain?
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: Icelander]
#14541678 - 05/31/11 04:59 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Fresh Air*
-------------------- Republican Values: 1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you. 2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child. 3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer. 4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: Icelander]
#14541679 - 05/31/11 04:59 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt? O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million; And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work. Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder: Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into a thousand parts divide on man, And make imaginary puissance; Think when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth; For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass: for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: Icelander]
#14541681 - 05/31/11 05:00 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Of course there are. Does anyone believe murderous OJ was the same sub-persona as jovial, amiable OJ?
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Does that mean both murderous and jovial OJ also had their own infinite number of sub-personalities?
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: Diploid]
#14541694 - 05/31/11 05:03 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Diploid said: Fresh Air*
I like radio shows that sound like a feminine hygiene spray.
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: Diploid]
#14541721 - 05/31/11 05:10 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
Diploid said: Fresh Air*
Right.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: Icelander]
#14541789 - 05/31/11 05:28 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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It gets downright Saszesque about the time he starts talking about "customized rehabilitation."
-------------------- Enlil said: You really are the worst kind of person.
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Quote:
It gets downright Sasquatchesque about the time he starts talking about "customized rehabilitation."
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-------------------- Enlil said: You really are the worst kind of person.
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: deranger]
#14542112 - 05/31/11 06:49 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I agree that a personality or persons mind is a general combination of different states of mind a person is in according to their feelings, thoughts and environment. The reason people "are the way they are" is because they are normally in predictable states of mind according to their predictable feelings and thoughts in those environments.
-------------------- L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et désirs
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It seems there is a competition between these selves that inhabit different areas of the brain. They all have strong ideas (just like in politics) of what is the right way for the self to proceed. That is why we often feel so divided on what we are doing or should do. It's kinda cool in a way. Like they say, you're never alone.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: Icelander]
#14542198 - 05/31/11 07:10 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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"O, pardon! since a crooked figure may Attest in little place a million;"
Translation:
"Excuse me, but representations of reality are no replacement for the infinite."
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: xFrockx]
#14542224 - 05/31/11 07:16 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Try and get from Michigan to California without it.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: Icelander]
#14542228 - 05/31/11 07:16 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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The sun sets in the west.
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: xFrockx]
#14542232 - 05/31/11 07:18 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Isn't the "west" a representation of reality?
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: Icelander]
#14542237 - 05/31/11 07:18 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well duh. It doesn't really "represent" anything though. There is no west, just the direction we call west. Like right and left.
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: xFrockx]
#14542241 - 05/31/11 07:19 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Too big? Not in the infinite.
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Re: The many people inside your brain? [Re: Icelander]
#14542257 - 05/31/11 07:22 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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My edits are infinite.
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