>>8222
>Though what do you make of the ones who consciously initiate a change in personality?
This is a common GOTCHA usually seen among people who neglect to observe the movements of their own consciousness.
The gist of it is that it is not possible to consciously initiate a change of personality.
What happens is essentially external influences accumulating over time in such a way, that adapting to them requires to either accept death or adjust the information processing schematic at a deeper level, which happens to be the personality level.
But since consciousness is unable to make objective observations outside itself, it inevitably ends up thinking of every such morphism as coming from within and being "truly wanted".
The reason for it is the intrinsic property of human consciousness to evaluate events in terms of "good" and "bad"; when a personality change is required, but is evaluated as "bad", an unresolvable conflict arises, which mandates death/endurance of pain; then, since very few people are tolerant to death/pain, in most cases the internal schematics of the brain break the existing evaluation chains and refactor them in a way that makes them consider the change in question to be rather "good" instead.
But since consciousness is incapable of changing itself, all such decisions are mandated by the unconscious (which in turn may be affected by the consciousness).
The only purpose of this mechanism is to ensure survival and indeed it is the product of evolution which sadly is based on the retarded competition-based kill-or-be-killed approach.
