The Different Agents in the Brain

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I'm just wondering, like, how agent do you think of these different parts as being? I think it really depends. Normally they're like cooperating so much that maybe it's hidden from us. But when I talk to a lot of people out there in the world, it seems like there's very salient how people do not necessarily believe that they are cooperating with themselves.

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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