I think most people have very strong defense mechanisms against noticing their conflicting subsystems, because it goes against the sense of having a central continuous identity. So it’s difficult to acknowledge the conflict unless you’ve experienced relatively extreme states of mind that are suicidal or homicidal or the like, that are so clearly not part of the ‘central’ agent that they can’t be written off as just a brief lapse of judgement.
I think most people have very strong defense mechanisms against noticing their conflicting subsystems, because it goes against the sense of having a central continuous identity. So it’s difficult to acknowledge the conflict unless you’ve experienced relatively extreme states of mind that are suicidal or homicidal or the like, that are so clearly not part of the ‘central’ agent that they can’t be written off as just a brief lapse of judgement.