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{{quote|<nowiki>*</nowiki>Phone rings*
'''Jay:''' Hello?
'''Familiar Voice:''' Hello Jay, this is your inner child. I escaped and I just held up a liquor store! *sirens* Gotta go!
|''[[The Critic (animation)|The Critic]]''}}
Cartesian philosophy includes a notion that there is, in effect, a little guy [[Happy Place|inside your head.]] He sits on your [[Pineal Weirdness|pineal gland]] and works the controls that make your robot-like body move around, much like the pilot of a [[Mobile Suit Human]]—that little guy is the "real you", and he's a much deeper and more interesting guy than the physical "you" that everyone else gets to see, mostly because the human body has lousy User Interface design. Some (though not all) schools of philosophy dismiss this notion, such as phenomonology and positivism (see ''Consciousness Explained'' by Daniel Dennett for an alleged thorough experimental demolition of the "Cartesian Theatre"; alternatively, see ''The Conscious Mind'' by David Chalmers for a theoretical defence of a similar idea).
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* This happens
* In ''[[Neo-Human Casshern]]'' the human scientist Tetsuya Azuma needed to find a method where he could stand against BK-1 in combat, and so transferred his mind into the titular android.
* Sayo of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is both a figurative AND literal example. For starters, she is an ''actual ghost'' possessing a tiny doll. This tiny doll pilots a [[Humongous Mecha]], which is to say, a [[Mobile Suit Human|normal sized robot]]. Built to look like her.
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* In the ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'' episode "Journey to the Center of the Punk," the ultimate destination of Howard's [[Fantastic Voyage]] is Vince's brain: a lone cell who looks like Vince and spends all its time watching a television that only shows people who look like Vince.
* In ''[[Seinfeld]]'', Jerry is dating a girl who is gorgeous and sexy, but not very bright. His conflict over this manifests itself in a scene where his brain (Jerry in a brain-shaped hat) and his penis (Jerry in a military helmet) face each other off in a chess game until one folds.
* ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]
* In ''[[Farscape]]'', over the course of the series, John has had everything from retreating into his inner self to try to work ideas out, to literal multi-layered ''wars'' inside his mind. On a day to day basis, his inner self usually has prolonged conversations with {{spoiler|Harvey, Scorpius's mind clone who is [[Enigmatic Minion|mostly almost not entirely]] [[Reliable Traitor|trying to help John]]. ...[[Magnificent Bastard|Maybe]].}}
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