I was going to respond with basically this as well. I too don’t intuitively experience myself as multiple agents; instead, I feel like a single agent beset by a whole bunch of internal conflicts that don’t resolve (at some point I found myself describing myself as “made of internal conflict”); and I’ve so far in my limited experience found IDC quite helpful at parsing out the internal conflict. I don’t experience IDC as uncovering separate agents that were there all along, but the personification is actually a pretty useful tool just because (a) it forces me to give sufficient airtime to each side (b) debate (when civil and thoughtful) is actually just a good format for clarifying any kind of disagreements.
I was going to respond with basically this as well. I too don’t intuitively experience myself as multiple agents; instead, I feel like a single agent beset by a whole bunch of internal conflicts that don’t resolve (at some point I found myself describing myself as “made of internal conflict”); and I’ve so far in my limited experience found IDC quite helpful at parsing out the internal conflict. I don’t experience IDC as uncovering separate agents that were there all along, but the personification is actually a pretty useful tool just because (a) it forces me to give sufficient airtime to each side (b) debate (when civil and thoughtful) is actually just a good format for clarifying any kind of disagreements.