This again reminds me of this very interesting case of multiple inner voices but apparently in a nonproblematic and useful way.
I wonder if there's been research about such cases? That would seem like an interesting avenue for understanding how our minds work and where things might go wrong.
Googling resulted this interesting article by @cfernyhough.bsky.social (edited extract from his book).
"And we are all fragmented. There is no unitary self. We are all in pieces, struggling to create the illusion of a coherent ‘me’ from moment to moment. We are all more or less dissociated."
Thanks! I’m someone without a voice in my head, and without visual imagery. It’s very hard for me to imagine what it’s like on the other end of the spectrum.
I'm similar. I think it makes it easier for me to accept there's no phenomenal consciousness (illusionism).
Having just read this interesting paper, I'm now also wondering about the connections between obtaining quiet mind with meditation and various degrees of already having one anyway.
And a wonderful philosopher of physics too. Here I reviewed (very favourably, if engagingly) his book on Quantum Chance: https://philpapers.org/rec/SURTMF
above all i noticed a (neuro)typical philosophical trend to use particular conditions like autism, schizophrenia or others as it were literary expedient or poetical metaphors to express, sometimes very basic, concepts. tha abled gaze everywhere.
thanks for sharing. as an audhd philosopher and cognitive science scholar that was recently interned in a psychiatric structure and lived very close with schizofrenics i know the importance to resist the urge to not talk for, and let people talk for themselves and their condition.
There are a few of these by philosophers in the schizophrenia bulletin. My friend and co-author @jeppsson.bsky.social writes about schizophrenia elsewhere as well
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I wonder if there's been research about such cases? That would seem like an interesting avenue for understanding how our minds work and where things might go wrong.
"And we are all fragmented. There is no unitary self. We are all in pieces, struggling to create the illusion of a coherent ‘me’ from moment to moment. We are all more or less dissociated."
Having just read this interesting paper, I'm now also wondering about the connections between obtaining quiet mind with meditation and various degrees of already having one anyway.
https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/49/5/1097/6623367?searchresult=1
https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/advance-article/doi/10.1093/schbul/sbae068/7681667?searchresult=1