The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 86 of 254

A whole person has more than one side

To be a whole person is precisely to have depth and more than one side. This is why DID is a disorder rather than a fascinating, postmodern way to live: each alter does not actually…

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Composite unity; the "whole is greater than the sum of its parts"

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