poehalcho wrote:We all know it's fake, but what if it happened? the well-known change personalities over the phone during a storm accident. how do you think the effects would show when personalities are switched?
I think the effects would be very indirect. since knowledge and memories are engraved in the patterns of the brain, a person cannot really become someone else. rather I think what would change is the way a person thinks; his thought pattern. I cannot really imagine that as an engraved part of the brain as well. it seems like something that is decided on the fly and can always vary.
your thoughts?
Could be going in a completely different direction, but sounds like you're talking about dissociative disorders, where some aspect of someone's personality seems fragmented from the rest...
kind of like Dissociative Identity Disorder ~ Person undergoes trauma so severe they repress it and their personality fragments in order to cope. Though, I think the whole dissociation's recognized as being some characteristic of whatever disease responding to some past trauma and has a link with mood swings and slight personality disorder.
Then again...I tend to forget what we went over in my psychology classes -.-''
but for the question on effects showing, I think it'd be pretty obvious when someone starts to think different on whatever conditioned situation (feelings included) and their behavior seems to have changed...personality's said to be an individual's unique pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that persists over time and is variant on situations....
So in a sense, it's becoming someone different, but from the same person ....if that makes any sense...lols
Like ....being afraid of doing whatever action that's found from others to be your usual behavior in avoiding it at all costs, no matter what. Just try to stay w/ me on this....a change occurs and they're not only embracing coming across the situation, but approach it in a whole 'nother manner than expected before. Not showing fright and tossing it aside like it's nothing; becoming "someone else". Not the best example, but hope I made clear what I wanted....lol
As for the memory thing ...'d like to add a bit (not gonna talk about soul 'n stuff)...
The thing brought up w/ D.I.D is the memory loss...a sense of losing consciousness.
The conscious is ideas, thoughts, and feelings which we are aware of...emphasis on the "aware of"
Freud said that personality's formed around 3 structures: id, ego, and superego.
Id's basically the pleasure principle where it's dealt in the unconscious (well below the surface of awareness) seeking to fulfill urges and desires on an instinctual level (behavior). Superego's shaped by social and parental standards each individual has internalized. It conflicts with Id where it strives for satisfaction in a socially acceptable fashion and Id goes for it regardless of whatever moral standards were set up. While the Ego's a part mediating between environmental demands (reality), conscience (superego), and needs (id).
My main focus is on the ID. Being an unconscious aspect of the "self", it seeks to fulfill our desires, like overcoming a fear, in an instinctual way...forming our behavior around it towards getting that goal done.
Perhaps if one truly wanted to fulfill something, the "self" would find a way to complete it, even if it has to ..like was said earlier...fragment the "self" to get that want met.
