The Temporal Democracy of Self-Slices | Science News | Scoop.it

Because our views, preferences, ideas and desires inevitably change over time, the existence-across-time that I call "myself" isn't a unitary, eternal and changeless individual. It's more like a chain of people, each one very similar to the ones before and after him, somewhat more different from the ones that are further away, although there are probably some major commonalities that last over a significant portion of my life.