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Conflicted is the brain holding two truths and refusing to evict either tenant.
means Feeling torn between two opposing desires, beliefs, or emotions, unable to settle on one.
from From Latin 'confligere,' to clash or strike together — 'con-' (together) plus 'fligere' (to strike). The same root gives us 'conflict,' the noun for the actual collision. 'Conflicted' is the adjectival heir: the past-participle form turned inward, so that instead of two armies clashing on a field, the battle happens entirely inside one head. The psychological sense — describing a person at war with themselves rather than an external dispute — is a relatively modern outgrowth of the older word for open struggle.
- split brain
- Severed corpus callosum can make hands fight each other
- named feeling
- Cognitive dissonance coined by Festinger in 1957
- buridan's donkey
- Two equal hay piles starve a perfectly logical animal
- decision cost
- Hard choices fire the brain's pain-processing regions
hamlet — shakespeare's prince paralyzes between revenge and inaction, written ~1600
nathan hale — american spy executed by britain in 1776, torn between patriotism and survival