The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 111 of 254
Psychological continuity in every human society
despite the notorious confusions of westerners trying to get by in Japanese culture, neither locals nor foreigners ever have any difficulty in treating individuals as the same individuals over time, with consistent traits, beliefs and so on. If you try to really imagine a society in which a person’s own sense of their psychological continuity was not the bedrock of personal identity, I don’t think you can imagine a society which is human at all.