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== [[Comic Books]] == |
== [[Comic Books]] == |
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* The Kree [ |
* The Kree [[wikipedia:Supreme Intelligence|Supreme Intelligence]] in [[Marvel Comics]] is the collected brains of all the important Kree, harvested upon their deaths. |
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* In ''Zorn & Dirna: Les Laminoirs'', Death has been imprisoned and cannot claim any lives. Since people still age and become horrid-looking, necrotic zombie-lookalikes, they are by law forced to go (or be dragged) to facilities where they are beheaded... which won't kill them, but make the soul take residence in the axeman. Some of the axemen (who are usually prisoners) harbour several ''thousand'' souls, which can fight for control of the body. |
* In ''Zorn & Dirna: Les Laminoirs'', Death has been imprisoned and cannot claim any lives. Since people still age and become horrid-looking, necrotic zombie-lookalikes, they are by law forced to go (or be dragged) to facilities where they are beheaded... which won't kill them, but make the soul take residence in the axeman. Some of the axemen (who are usually prisoners) harbour several ''thousand'' souls, which can fight for control of the body. |
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* ''[[Dollhouse]]'': By the end of the series, both Echo and Alpha have assimilated dozens of personalities. |
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'': By the end of the series, both Echo and Alpha have assimilated dozens of personalities. |
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* [[Red Dwarf (TV)|You may call me Legion, for we are many.]] "You mean you're a gestalt entity?" "Yes." |
* [[Red Dwarf (TV)|You may call me Legion, for we are many.]] "You mean you're a gestalt entity?" "Yes." |
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* The Time Lord Matrix in ''[[ |
* The Time Lord Matrix in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is a computer housing the collected memories of all the deceased presidents of Gallifrey. Unlike the Kree Supreme Intelligence (see Comics), it is not itself sentient, but it is possible to enter it as a virtual reality [[Cyberspace]]. |
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* Done in ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'' and again in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''; in both cases, the mind hive was created to serve as [[The Ark]]. |
* Done in ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'' and again in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''; in both cases, the mind hive was created to serve as [[The Ark]]. |
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* ''[[Crusade]]'' had one of these as a [[Monster of the Week]]. It began to spread parts of itself amongst the crew of the Excalibur, [[Mind Virus|turning each crew-member into a platform for one of its personalities]]. |
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== [[Tabletop Games]] == |
== [[Tabletop Games]] == |
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== [[Real Life]] == |
== [[Real Life]] == |
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* There is a [ |
* There is a [[wikipedia:Society of mind|theory]] that human minds work like this. |
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** As well as Eric Berne's early model that essentially viewed some behaviour patterns as internal roleplaying sessions between one's learned roles (mostly reduced to basic "parent" and "child") and the part that isn't in this game and as such is more "rational". Which may be weird, but much less so than the facts he tried to explain. |
** As well as Eric Berne's early model that essentially viewed some behaviour patterns as internal roleplaying sessions between one's learned roles (mostly reduced to basic "parent" and "child") and the part that isn't in this game and as such is more "rational". Which may be weird, but much less so than the facts he tried to explain. |
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** In addition [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] once described the human mind as a bunch of conflicting souls (not the supernatural kind of course), with one soul in dominance. |
** In addition [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] once described the human mind as a bunch of conflicting souls (not the supernatural kind of course), with one soul in dominance. |
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