by mk
That’s the tricky part about our capacity for self-reflection. I can think about the things I once did and my reasons for doing them only by drawing a distinction between the person remembering and the person remembered. If I would not do now what I did then, it is because I am, in some sense, not the same agent I once was. That break in continuity suggests my impermanence, not only in the long run, but from moment to moment.To combat that sneaking suspicion, we practice narrative.