RE: Multiple Personalities

Crosby_M (CrosbyM@po1.cpi.bls.gov)
Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:06:59 -0500


On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, David Musick wrote:
< A few months ago, I started becoming more aware that I have multiple
personalities [snip] It seems that the more attention that is being given
to ourselves and how we work, the more the personalities develop and
differentiate.>

James Daugherty responded:
<Excellent! Seems to me there was a book that presented this theory
published maybe a decade ago or so..... Was in modules of the mind
or....?>

Try Marvin Minsky's "The Society of Mind"

Mark

In a different thread, that now seems somewhat related, Saturday, October
26, 1996 2:51 PM, Eric Watt Forste wrote:
< It seems to me that in the long run 100% decentralization would result in
the disintegration of the individual into freely roving subcognitive
computational elements. Are you sure this is the kind of future you want to
work for?>

To which Rich Artym replied:
<We're talking about decentralization within human social systems, which
reach 100% decentralization once the unit of granularity considered is the
human individual. That is indeed the kind of future I want to
work for.>