The Self Is A Perpetually Recreated Neurobiological

When You Deal With Something Like Compassion For Physical Pain, Which We Know Is Very, Very Old In Evolution - We Can Find Evidence For It In Nonhuman Species - The Brain Processes It At A Faster Speed. Compassion For Mental Pain Took Many Seconds Longer.

When You Experience The Emotion Of Sadness, There Will Be Changes In Facial Expression, And Your Body Will Be Closed In, Withdrawn. There Are Also Changes In Your Heart, Your Guts: They Slow Down. And There Are Hormonal Changes.

Narratives Are Not Fixed. We Change Our Narratives For Ourselves And We Change Them Not Necessarily Deliberately. In Other Words, Some People Do, Some People Will Constantly Reconstruct Their Biography For External Purposes, It's A Very Interesting Political Ploy.

A Self That Is Very Robust, That Has Many, Many Levels Of Organization, From Simple To Complex, And That Functions As A Sort Of Witness To What Is Going On In Our Organisms.

You're Not The Same After, Say, An Incredible Love Affair That Went Very Well Or A Love Affair That Went Bad. Or Something That Happens To Your Health, Or Something That Happened To Somebody Else's Health, That Is Close To You. Or Something That Happens Professionally.