The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 69 of 254
Multiple selves are possible in everyone
To put it in broader terms, the self is not a single thing, it is simply what the brain and body system does. If that’s so, then there is absolutely no reason in principle why the brain couldn’t do different things at different times. In that sense, as the philosopher Daniel Dennett and the psychologist Nicholas Humphry concluded in their investigation into DID, not only is multiplicity ‘biologically and psychologically possible’ but ‘the possibility of developing multiple selves is inherent in every human being’.4