The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 34 of 254
A self flexible enough for constant renovation
This means that very few, if any, parts are critical to its existence, and so it can adapt to sometimes massive losses. However, self does still depend on that functioning brain, and the wrong kind of malfunction can dramatically change it or completely destroy it. To put it another way, the self is a construction of the mind, one flexible enough to withstand constant renovation, partial…