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Galen Strawson:

"I’m somewhere down towards the episodic end of this spectrum. I have no sense of my life as a narrative with form, and very little interest in my own past. My personal memory is very poor, and rarely impinges on my present consciousness. I make plans for the future, and to that extent think of myself perfectly adequately as something with long-term continuity. But I experience this way of thinking of myself as remote and theoretical, given the most central or fundamental way in which I think of myself, which is as a mental self or someone. Using ME to express the way in which I think of myself, I can accurately express my experience by saying that I do not think of ME as being something in the future."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v18/n08/galen-strawson/the-s...

Would also recommend Strawson's Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc.



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