The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 49 of 254

Personality survives failing memory

What gives this view some credence is the extent to which personality remains, even as memory and other cognitive capacities fail. ‘One of the things with the residents here that you see time and time again is that they behave in character,’ says Jackie.

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