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We see it in thrillers like SPLIT, but does it ever happen in real life? Are there people in this world with multiple personalities? And if so, what does it take to fracture a mind?

Covered Topics: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Multiple Personalities, Alters, Billy Milligan, Zoo Man of Knoxville, David Chalmers, Hard Problem of Consciousness, Douglas Hofstadter, Panpsychism, Thales of Miletus, Joseph DeAngelo

Further Reading: 

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/could-multiple-personality-disorder-explain-life-the-universe-and-everything/

https://www.thecut.com/2015/11/blind-woman-had-10-personalities-some-could-see.html

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/91244/5-criminals-who-claimed-have-multiple-personalities.

https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/crazy-not-insane-did-ted-bundy-have-multiple-personality

https://www.dispatch.com/article/20071028/NEWS/310289729

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAPPzmRb4r0

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shadow-boxing/202005/the-zoo-man-murders

https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/huskey-thomas.htm

https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/philosophy-of-personal-identity-and-multiple-personality/

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-07/david-chalmers-and-the-puzzle-of-consciousness/8679884


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