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I Think It's Possible To A Certain Extent To Make Those Comparisons. The Problem Is The Detail With Which The Comparison Can Be Made. Of Course, The First Place To Make Such A Comparison Would Be To Ask For A Testimony From Different People And Have People Report On What They Experience.

How Can You Have This Reference Point, This Stability, That Is Required To Maintain The Continuity Of Selves Day After Day?

There's That Effect That Is Very Physical, Very Down There At The Synaptic Level, Which Really Means Microscopic Cellular Level, But Also Molecular Level, Because All Of Those Structures Are Operating On An Electrochemical Basis And So The Changes There Are Very Important.

There Is A Sequence Of Events In Our Lives And So There's A Temporal Aspect To Our Experience That Brings By Itself, Sense Into The Story. In Other Words, You Were Not Walking Before You Were Born And You Were Not Doing X And Y Before You Did Something Else First. So There's A Sequencing Of Events That Imposes A Certain Structure To The Story.

I Believe That It Is Made Out Of The Same Cloth Of Mind, But It Is An Add-on, It Was Something That Was Specialized To Create What We Call The Self. And It Exists For Very Special Purposes And It Has Very Special, And I Think By And Large Good Consequences, Although Not Only Good Consequences.