The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 37 of 254
No pearl at the heart of self
There are, however, two highly significant features of the self that scientific knowledge pulls into focus. Firstly it underlines very strongly the fact that there is no pearl at the heart of self. The apparent unity of self is the result of a highly organised play of parts. The second is that central to the ordinary sense of self is the construction of what has been called here the autobiographical self, and this depends, more than anything else, on memory…