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 two given consciousnesses. Headmates of the same consciousness usually communicate with each other easily, being able to hear and feel each other's thoughts and feelings - however, it is much harder to communicate cross-consciousnesses than within one, as it is often easier to know in what consciousness something was thought than to know who said it (which sometimes causes subsystems to form around consciousnesses that find it harder to communicate).

A consciousness can be either linear, that is, it is only capable of thinking about one thing at a time, or concurrent, that is, capable of thinking about multiple things at a time. Regardless, consciousnesses can think at the same time, independently - each consciousness has its own line(s) of thoughts.

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 have a single consciousness, usually a linear one.

Related Terms

 * Terms with the -conscious suffix describe the varius consciousness types.
 * Memory management types commonly overlap with consciousness types, making both hard to define individually.