Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson (Book Summary) | Sloww
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Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson (Book Summary) | Sloww
- The more you build your self-conception
on memory, which is notoriously unreliable, and the more you try to give yourself an identity
by constructing a narrative of your life, the less likely you are to understand who and what
you really are.from Article
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Galen Strawson
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.
from The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
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People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different f
... See morefrom Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
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