Telling A Life
To The Best Of Our Knowledge
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Do You Have a Life Story About Yourself?
I like to distinguish between a narrative and a chronology, where a chronology is just knowledge of basic facts. There might be lots of little bits, but there isn't a story. Isn't a continuous narrative? I think that the way are deep characters, as it were, are really principally in effect of genetic inheritance and very early upbringing - before we can remember anything. So i'm very sceptical about the idea that we really change dramatically after a certain point,. And even more sceptical that we could be in control of that process.
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