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Originally Posted by TimMason
@TGS
Have you read Strawson's essay on the self? In it, he claims that he does not experience himself as having continuity through time, and that he is not alone in this? (speaking for myself, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't). He argues that people who experience themselves as living continuously do so through constructing stories - and stories are inadequate. (Interestingly, the social historian Charles Tilly makes something like this point in one of his last books, "Why?")
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Strawson's story story might be able to account for the sense that the headache I had yesterday only appears to me now as "my" headache in virtue of the story of an enduring self that I construct (and although he might argue that I'm not convinced that's how it is for him), but I don't think it accounts for the headache I have now being experienced as "my" headache as distinct from some headache-ness going on that I contingently associate with.