The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 90 of 254
Facets of a gem with nothing in the centre
it is true that we could talk of multiple selves or multi-faceted selves, but the former is just more truthful than the latter. She illustrates this with the analogy of the self as a gemstone. ‘If you accept the intuitive model, that of a many-faceted gem, a cut diamond rotating and catching different facets of light, the trouble with that is that it implies there is something underneath the faces, that there is a central core that is rotating the faces around. I’m saying something very different. I’m saying that if you take away the faces there is nothing in the centre.’