system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: What happens in our brain when we argue with ourselves?
gpt
Our minds aren't monolithic, they aren't a single, unified thing. It seems like our minds are composed of several modules, only one of them being the thing that thinks "I am here reading this explanation right now". So when we argue with ourselves, modules with different motivations (survival, pleasure, morality) act more or less at the same time, competing for the attention of the control module.