We have tons of specialized components that work together cooperatively and competitively. There’s multiple ways they connect. There also seems to be global processes that happen, like during sleep. There’s over 3,000 cell types per the BRAIN initiative. Every brain forms on it’s own taking shape like something out of a Transformers movie.

God’s design is mostly nothing like man’s neural networks. It’s far superior. Brains are also what’s creating all the artificial, neural nets on top of all math, tech, and economic systems that they run on. AI’s got a lot of catching up to do.

I think it's way more than 8 even. And it's common to have many working as supervisors, often at conflict with each other. And some act out the automatic trauma responses, as they're stuck in the past when the trauma occurred.

This sounds very much like the internal family systems model: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Family_Systems_Mode...

Right it’s like a random forest or something maybe.

minsky, 'society of mind', everything old is new again

Multi Homunculus Model

I was thinking something like Julian Jayne’s Bicameral mind, but you’re always arguing with yourself lol

Sounds like dennett's multiple drafts hypothesis.

I personally visualize them at a table from time to time.

Do they have to collaborate to decide who gets to use the forks?

That sounds like a culturally bound phenomenon, shouldn't they be using chopsticks?

Chopsticks makes sense because there's only 5 of them and they have to share the 5 chopsticks.

Of course not, you don't need forks while playing poker.

How do they look? Do they look differently?

And et voila, you have the script of inside out. \s

But honestly I do think this is how we operate. Depending on our state of metabolism and other psychological factors, the dominant version changes but as a whole we remain the sum total of all these versions.

So there is a number, let's say 42, 42 versions of us running in parallel make consciousness, reasoning and all other useful abilities appear?

More like a number within Miller's law[1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%27s_law#:~:text=The%20o...