The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 47 of 254
A man does not consist of memory alone
If there is a continuity of key character traits, there will be some, albeit a radically diminished, continuity of the self too. ‘A man does not consist of memory alone,’ wrote the psychologist A.R. Luria, ‘he has feeling, will, sensibilities, moral feeling – matters of which neuropsychology cannot speak.’11 That is why H.M. remained recognisably H.M., even though he had lost a huge part of who he was.