The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 43 of 254

Selective memory constructs the self

We all ignore and do not commit to memory facts and events that conflict with the way we see ourselves and the world. We remember selectively, usually without conscious effort or desire to do so. And yet because we believe memory records facts, objectively, we fail to see that all this means that we are constructing ourselves and the world. Memories are therefore rather complicated building blocks of the self.

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