...when we look at life history from the perspective of neural Darwinism, it is fair to say that we are all becoming different persons all the time, we are not what we were; self and memory are emergent, in process, constantly evolving, and both are grounded in the body and the body image. Responding to the flux of self-experience, we instinctively gravitate to identity-support-structures: the notion of identity as continuous over time and the use of autobiographical discourse to record its history.

• autobiography
• neural darwinism
• self
• memory
• evolution
• body
• body image
• experience
• identity
• continuous identity
• time
• narrative
• narratization
• life
• perspective
• history