Psychology and Neuroscience

Split personality model → one unit having many different units inside of that unit, some acting coherently and others not (ambivalence)

Lorenz Duremdes, Polymath

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Oct 19, 2019

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1. Current every-day perspective about ourselves and others → one unit acting coherently with itself;
2. Split personality model → one unit having many different units inside of that unit, some acting coherently and others not (ambivalence);
3. Ambivalence → the degree of conflict between different units inside one unit;
4. Consciousness → located in the prefrontal cortex;
5. Working memory → located in the prefrontal cortex;
6. Consciousness + working memory → the consciousness is limited to its working memory capacity, and therefore has limited control over the processes happening in the brain and their resulting behavior;
7. Subconsciousness → not limited to a limited working memory capacity → subconsciousness makes up a much bigger part of the brain → has much more control over all the processes and their resulting behavior than the consciousness;