If you were going to program a human mind, I feel like the code would be different for these two different models. One is sort of like a single agent with this continuous set of information that's kind of causing different behaviors and different situations. And the other is just like different agents. It seems to me like these actually are different models.
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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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