User:Laxystem/Consciousness

Consciousness:Consciousnesses are where internal communication and thinking happens within a system.

A headmate can be a member of any number of consciousnesses, and choosing which one to think at is often intuitive - but it may be significantly harder or easier for one to think inside a given conciousness. Headmates of the same consciousness usually communicate with each other better, being able to hear and feel each other's thoughts and feelings.

(TODO: coin a term for thinking/speaking in the wrong consciousness? coin a term for not knowing who said something?)

Multiple consciousnesses can think about multiple things at the same time - each consciousness has its own line of thought. However, it can be much harder to communicate cross-consciousness than within it, and it is much easier to know what consciousness thought something than knowing who in that consciousness said it, sometimes causing a subsystem to form around a consciousness that has a hard time communicating with other consciousnesses.

Consciousnesses also affect fronting - some systems have specific consciousnesses headmates need to enter in order to front (Fixumconscious), and some can front from every consciousness (Mutaconscious).

Singlets usually have a single, linear consciousness.

(TODO: split linear/concurrent consciousnesses into their own pages)

Linear Consciousnesses
Linear consciousnesses can only think about a single thing at once.

Concurrent Consciousnesses
Concurrent consciousnesses can think about multiple things at once. Sometimes, they are built from several linear consciousnesses all with roughly the same members working together.

Related Terms

 * Terms with the -conscious suffix describe different structures of consciousnesses a system might have.