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Cole confuses persons with personalities

Multiple virtual personalities may exist in one brain but multiple persons may not. A psychiatric patient with multiple personality disorder isn't possessed by a variety of virtual persons, but rather by a psyche fractured into a variety of persona.

Selmer Bringsjord, 1992.
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