memoridem comments on Would Your Real Preferences Please Stand Up? - Less Wrong

42 Post author: Yvain 08 August 2009 10:57PM

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Comment author: Strange7 23 January 2014 12:38:32AM 0 points [-]

It sounds as though not enough of your research explored the possibility of you having some manner of dissociative disorder.

Comment author: memoridem 23 January 2014 04:57:45AM 0 points [-]

A disorder would be a description of what the person is reporting, since you can't scan their brain to establish the diagnosis. An important problem with this approach is that we don't know whether there's an impaired processing of the social necessity called self, or whether the person just perceives or describes normal processing differently, or whether they label a different process with the word self than people normally do.