Self across time: the diachronic unity of bodily existence

摘要: The debate on personal persistence has been characterized by a dichotomy which is due to its still Cartesian framwork: On the one side we find proponents of psychological continuity who connect, in Locke’s tradition, person with constancy first-person perspective retrospection. other side, biological approach take diachronic identity consist organism as carrier existence from third-person-perspective. Thus, what accounts for someone’s over time, his mind hand, and body other. In contrast those views, paper intends show that bodily represents basis selfhood across both experiential self autopoietic organism. lived conveys perspective, namely pre-reflective feeling sameness or felt subjectivity. Moreover, an analysis awakening sleep shows there continuous transition full wakefulness periods deep may thus not be regarded complete interruption subjective experience. this converges organismic life process conceived third-person perspective. subjectivity living should two aspects same process. Finally, also exhibits specific form memory results continual embodiment existence: it consists all affinities, capacities experiences, acquired throughout life. provides must actively produced through remembering, but rather integrates person’s entire past present being potentiality.