passive_fist comments on Open Thread, Apr. 20 - Apr. 26, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: passive_fist 21 April 2015 04:01:07AM 1 point [-]

That's a powerful idea and it actually goes deeper than you may think. We are divided even internally inside ourselves. There is reason to think that your internal rational decision-making processes consist of multiple sub-processes that combine and compare various points of view. Each sub-process has the same level of interaction with other sub-processes as you would have when speaking to another person. Your mental sub-processes may not even distinguish between thoughts and ideas coming from another part of your brain and coming from another person.