Could Multiple Personality Disorder Explain Life, the Universe and Everything?

You don t need to be a philosopher to realize the obvious problem with this idea: people have private, separate fields of experience. We can t normally read your thoughts and, presumably, neither can you read ours. Moreover, we are not normally aware of what s going on across the universe and, presumably, neither are you. So, for idealism to be tenable, one must explain at least in principle how one universal consciousness gives rise to multiple, private but concurrently conscious centers of cognition, each with a distinct personality and sense of identity.

And here is where dissociation comes in. We know empirically from DID that consciousness can give rise to many operationally distinct centers of concurrent experience, each with its own personality and sense of identity. Therefore, if something analogous to DID happens at a universal level, the one universal consciousness could, as a result, give rise to many alters with private inner lives like yours and ours. As such, we may all be alters dissociated personalities of universal consciousness.

via getpocket.com

Far out man.