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the essential idea is that personality is malleable, there are concepts in NNs that are analogous to experience we can use to name, deconstruct, orient, and contrast, and as a way to exercise some agency over our own personalities.

you can choose it, and like "the five monkeys experiment"[1] after a while, you don't remember the things you don't believe anymore.

the author used trauma, env change, extreme experiences and psychedelics as examples, but something as simple as reading a book or a comment on a forum can detach us from beliefs and ideas that moored our personality in a local basin. we are the effects of feedback, so change your feedback.

[1] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-ex...



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