The Apple TV show Severance introduces the idea of medically separating your mind into two distinct halves, but how far from reality is this idea?
Severance, the hit Apple TV Plus show that landed on our screens earlier this year, truly spoke to the current moment. A world where shadowy, uncaring corporations seek to control our lives, subsume our entire identity within the company apparatus, and manipulate us while promising 'work-life balance' – all of these things will feel familiar to office workers in the modern world.
The idea of mental segregation in the workplace isn’t new to sci-fi. Philip K. Dick explored it in his novelette Paycheck , in which an engineer has his memory erased after completing a two-year contract with his employer, afterward having no idea what work he actually undertook. And Severance toys with a similar premise, seeing its workers have no idea what happens inside the office after they leave it, their tormented 'innies' ceasing to exist for the remainder of the day.
The U.K. mental health charity Mind describes DID as when"different aspects of your identity may be in control of your behavior and thoughts at different times." This disorder can see your identity split into distinct parts, each with"different patterns of thinking and relating to the world," possibly with distinct ages and genders, and even amnesia that means"you don’t remember what happens when another part of your identity is in control.
However, the show Severance repeatedly refers to a 'severance procedure," which involves invasive surgery into the human brain itself, and things get even trickier here. Crucially, this was only the case for those who had a hemisphere removed in childhood, at a time when the brain is still developing; University of Edinburgh psychology lecturer Daniel Mirman told New Scientist that a child’s brain was still very"plastic," adding that"if only one hemisphere's resources are available, then both behaviors will rely on that resource rather than splitting it between the two hemispheres.
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