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Originally Posted by Iksander  That sounds alot like 'thrashing' (I think its technical term is cognitive dissonance). With computers, thrashing occurs when there are so many processes the processor spends more time switching between them then actually running a process. Cognitive dissonance seems applicable here. |
Well, if we want to hold the computer analogy, you only have one CPU (I doubt any home computer currently has more than 4), so you can only do one thing at a time. So, if there are only a few processes running, then thrashing wouldn't occur, but thread scheduling still would, right? In that sense, if you hold the analogy, it sounds reasonable.
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Originally Posted by Iksander That form of identity seems much more rigid than fluid - is fluid identity something that isn't necessarily so black and white? Or is it switching into those states decisively without thrashing against the other states? |
So, if you can switch without thrashing, then it seems fluid. What do you think?