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I can see the advantage of having multiple personalities. It's like being a turtle in its shell, hiding when its convenient--hiding when one must. But because in this social world it's difficult to just "hide" with one's responsibilities and social obligations (remember work? school?) to have a stronger personality just come out and take over must be relieving.
In my fantasies it's not so much that a whole different personality emerges so much as I imagine that my brain is perfectly compartmentalized so that any given time parts of it can be "turned off". The great thing is that I have learned from Psychology and Philosophy classes that this is perfectly possible in the future as already now they're able to isolate parts of the brain and stimulate specific emotions (i.e. humor/laughter). I like to think I could have absolute power over myself, complete control, and I would be able to decide which faculties I'm running...Like a computer.
And in some ways we all have been searching for this method. There's therapy and happy pills and shock therapy--all of which were created for the purpose of controlling our emotions. Why? Because emotions don't make sense. They're hard to dissect and analyze, they're hard to cry out, they're difficult to drown. I've put so much in storage that when I hear knocking on any door I fear that they're all trembling in their cages, trying to get me.
One at a time they could erode me, but all at once I could die.
In my fantasies it's not so much that a whole different personality emerges so much as I imagine that my brain is perfectly compartmentalized so that any given time parts of it can be "turned off". The great thing is that I have learned from Psychology and Philosophy classes that this is perfectly possible in the future as already now they're able to isolate parts of the brain and stimulate specific emotions (i.e. humor/laughter). I like to think I could have absolute power over myself, complete control, and I would be able to decide which faculties I'm running...Like a computer.
And in some ways we all have been searching for this method. There's therapy and happy pills and shock therapy--all of which were created for the purpose of controlling our emotions. Why? Because emotions don't make sense. They're hard to dissect and analyze, they're hard to cry out, they're difficult to drown. I've put so much in storage that when I hear knocking on any door I fear that they're all trembling in their cages, trying to get me.
One at a time they could erode me, but all at once I could die.