Hmm, I actually might know where some of the brain scan stuff is coming from!
I have no idea how I was linked to it or how to find it again, but years ago I was shown a video where different brain activity was shown between actors attempting to change roles and a system switching. It wasn't a "brain scan" proving the system exists per se, but just proof of some minorly odd brain activity (I think something like an interruption in activity, where it stopped and started again quickly) during a switch that couldn't be replicated by faking. So not proving the system was real, not validating that understanding of DID, just that SOMETHING not easily faked was happening during a switch.
So for a while I saw that and similar experiments cited as "PROOF of multiplicity!!!" Which it's... not exactly, but I guess if you squint you can pretend. Then I think it started morphing further into "well since there's PROOF, why don't YOU prove it, you big faker!" Which is even less productive.
...I honestly don't even understand the "they're not even as complicated as a personality they're just STRATEGIES" thing. It doesn't work with anyone I know of. Not that they can't have been made for a purpose. I'm by far the most obviously a specific tool in this system! But most people and fragments tend to develop to have other traits beyond their main "use". Do these guys think people are just PRETENDING to have different, like, food tastes even when it has nothing to do with their supposed use? This stuff is easily observable, unless you don't believe a word your patients say is trustworthy. Which I guess answers the question.
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Date: 2017-10-14 05:36 am (UTC)Hmm, I actually might know where some of the brain scan stuff is coming from!
I have no idea how I was linked to it or how to find it again, but years ago I was shown a video where different brain activity was shown between actors attempting to change roles and a system switching. It wasn't a "brain scan" proving the system exists per se, but just proof of some minorly odd brain activity (I think something like an interruption in activity, where it stopped and started again quickly) during a switch that couldn't be replicated by faking. So not proving the system was real, not validating that understanding of DID, just that SOMETHING not easily faked was happening during a switch.
So for a while I saw that and similar experiments cited as "PROOF of multiplicity!!!" Which it's... not exactly, but I guess if you squint you can pretend. Then I think it started morphing further into "well since there's PROOF, why don't YOU prove it, you big faker!" Which is even less productive.
...I honestly don't even understand the "they're not even as complicated as a personality they're just STRATEGIES" thing. It doesn't work with anyone I know of. Not that they can't have been made for a purpose. I'm by far the most obviously a specific tool in this system! But most people and fragments tend to develop to have other traits beyond their main "use". Do these guys think people are just PRETENDING to have different, like, food tastes even when it has nothing to do with their supposed use? This stuff is easily observable, unless you don't believe a word your patients say is trustworthy. Which I guess answers the question.