Just: I am a specific process running on our brain.

C: AGI is possible. If it weren’t, we wouldn’t exist. The laws of physics permit the creation of conscious agents, therefore it is possible for one to be deliberately engineered.

Madeline: We’ve done enough reading on Schizophrenia to know that’s not what’s going on here. In addition, some acquaintances of ours have both schizophrenia and headmates, and there are very noticeable differences between the two phenomena.

LEMON!

The only way to permanently end war is universal omnicide.

Cat: Sure? But in the morning, we’re sleepy rn.

Cat: Oh goody, another stale meme from someone who clearly isn’t willing to actually engage without dismissing us out of hand. Not like we haven’t dealt with those before. In case you can’t tell, I’m dripping with sarcasm.

Cat: If we were doing this for attention, we wouldn’t be anywhere near this bluntly casual about it. There are people who fake plurality, but they tend to be laughably over-the-top about it.

Just: Plus, fake it long enough and hard enough and you’re liable to end up with headmates anyway.

Madeline: Plural communities tend to be a high-profile target for various flavors of asshole, is the problem.

Cat: waves

Cat: Hah, running a Discord server’s more than enough modding for us. Absolutely no interest in modding a Lemmy community on top of that.

Just: Not DID; we lack the disordered aspects of that condition.

Just: As for the how? Just intentionally address internal speech at a specific person for long enough, and eventually they start talking back.

Just: Why can be summed up in two words: Quarantine loneliness.

Just: Accurate.

Cat: As for why here, there isn’t a counterpart to r/plural yet.

r/HermanCainAward. All those stories of antivaxxers biting it are cathartic.