Inner conflict and psychological democracy. Luke Roelofs | Luke Roelofs is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Arlington, writing about the metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics of consciousness. Is there one self or many competing selves within us? Some argue we contain multiple selves, warring for attention and even control of the organism. But philosopher Luke Roelofs argues that we must distinguish between two accounts of the self to make sense of this: a persona emerging from mental processes and the substrate that underpins them. We can have multiple personas in conflict with one another, but the substrate in which they are in conflict remains unified. We should allow our multiple selves to democratically coexist in order to live a richer, more harmonious, internal life.
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