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I just happened to be reading Consciousness and the Social Brain [1] which gives a theory of consciousness as the brain's representation of attention. One of t
by mtrimpe 12y ago
I just happened to be reading Consciousness and the Social Brain [1] which gives a theory of consciousness as the brain's representation of attention.
One of their points was that if consciousness is just a representation it should be possible for your brain to alternate between representations, much like as happens in multi-stable perception [2], which would explain DID.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349805-consciousness-and-the-social-brain https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349805-consciousness-a...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistable_perception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistable_perception