@William Gikandi I love how you're describing it as a state, and that is so accurate. Thanks for that. For me, I like to use the word “identity” or “personas.” When you say, “A part of me wants to eat chocolate, but a part of me wants to maintain a diet,” this way I can say there are two identities or two sub-personas. Each persona or identity is complete and comes with a state, beliefs, behaviors, and everything. In psychology, it's commonly accepted that the idea that there's one personality for one physical human body is a myth. One physical human body actually has many personas, masks, sub-personas, or identities. They call them parts. You can think of each part as a complete "person" that comes with that person or persona's state, beliefs, behaviors, actions, and everything. Sometimes, if you notice, you switch between parts or personas throughout the day, and that's what I think it means: switching state. When you're in one state or one persona, the thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors of the others are not available to you. I think that's also why high-performance athletes and sportspeople build and use alter egos. They can quickly snap out of their everyday persona or set of personas and snap into this one alter ego or persona that has been custom prepared for playing that particular sport.