“The Limits of ‘Lived Experience’ ” by Pamela Paul: Limited Perspective

Pamela Paul, known until today as editor of The New York Times Book Review, is now a columnist for The Times, but she has not changed her perspective on multiple personality: she ignores it (1).

Persons with “multiple personality trait” (2) — probably 90% of fiction writers and up to 30% of the general public — imaginatively experience the world from the various perspectives (different genders, etc.) of their alternate personalities. Their virtual-reality experience may sometimes be, in the words of some fiction writers, “more real than real.”

1. Pamela Paul. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/opinion/lived-experience-empathy-culture.html

2. Kenneth A. Nakdimen, MD. https://multiplewriters.blogspot.com/