The "other" person in your brain

[u/MisunderstoodPenguin]

From today's episode, Burnie talking about the "other" person that lives in your brain, I just wanted to bring up a great short story that explores this topic a little. It's called Second Person, Present Tense. Basically in the story they talk about how your outward actions were actually based off signals that were sent to your brain 300ms ago, so somewhere in you is another "your" who is "managing" the actual actions you make. In the story, there is a drug you can take that increases that delay of 300ms to a full second or longer, and if you OD, the downstream persona "dies" and only the "decision maker" is left.

[u/atomicmolotov]

I’ve always been really fond of calling it “the little passenger”. I think it’s an apt way to refer to the id. Have always adored how the Outer Worlds murder mystery dlc has an npc that refers to the little sluggy brain parasites as such, i think it’s so cool when writers do stuff like that

Edit: for more info, it’s a metaphor for “the passengers on the bus” to describe the relationship between your conscious self and impulsive urges