“Would it be right to say that your emotional states are changing your definition of “crazy”?
No. Each emotional state has it’s own separate definition of “crazy”, which doesn’t seem very prone to change (i.e. much as calm-self would love to rewrite manic-self to view traffic as dangerous, my manic self still feels it is invincible)
However, I can pass along information and algorithms between selves. My calm self has an algorithm that says “If you are tempted to walk in to traffic for any reason, you are probably not sane.” My manic self can run this algorithm, and she will go “huh, calm self views this as a crazy idea, even though I am invincible. There’s a small chance calm self is right, so I’ll avoid traffic. Plus, it will make calm-self happier with me, and I like it when calm-self can relax and not try to kill me with drugs.”
No. Each emotional state has it’s own separate definition of “crazy”, which doesn’t seem very prone to change (i.e. much as calm-self would love to rewrite manic-self to view traffic as dangerous, my manic self still feels it is invincible)
However, I can pass along information and algorithms between selves. My calm self has an algorithm that says “If you are tempted to walk in to traffic for any reason, you are probably not sane.” My manic self can run this algorithm, and she will go “huh, calm self views this as a crazy idea, even though I am invincible. There’s a small chance calm self is right, so I’ll avoid traffic. Plus, it will make calm-self happier with me, and I like it when calm-self can relax and not try to kill me with drugs.”