“First Person Plural” by Paul Bloom: The eminent academic psychologist says everyone has “multiple selves,” but the fact is that most people don’t
Here is a link to his article:
https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers/others/everything/bloom2008a.pdf
Professor Bloom personifies everyone’s “multiple selves” as competing with each other for the chance to take control (just as alternate personalities do in multiple personality).
And personified “selves” that continually existed would likely have names, which is the sign of personified continual existence, but Professor Bloom makes no mention of any of his “selves” having their own names.
Moreover, while many of the experts on multiple selves are psychologists, they are clinical psychologists, who have seen persons with multiple selves, and know it is not something everyone has.
Everyone certainly does have multiple facets, but not multiple "selves.”
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