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So I’ve noticed that some people here have thoughts on multi-agent models of the mind. I operate consistently day-to-day with a multi-agent model of my mind that I’ve developed out of my own internal experience—after experimenting with both perspectives, multi-agent feels intuitive and sense-making to me, whereas trying to see myself as a single agent feels wrong or confusing. Is it a metaphor? Is my model different or is my brain different? Is this a symptom of something? Who knows! Sometimes I try to “tone this down” when explaining thoughts and feelings to others (mostly stick to describing myself as though I were a single agent having conflicting thoughts/feelings)…and it can genuinely feel weird, like I’m editing or translating in a way that loses important information.
I think that there's absolutely something to having different "modes" of yourself that you can occupy, like different archetypes that you have access to depending on your current needs and environment, but each of them are still 'you.' It's like looking at a light through stained glass; the glass in front can change but there's always the same light shining through.