Concept · Self
Atomic composition
Electrons move constantly at no cost to identity (Numbers-level); neutrons change the mass but not the element, and some combinations are unstable, decaying on their own schedule (echoes the Compost Heap's unprocessed weight); changing the proton count takes a nuclear reaction and changes the element itself (Paradigm-level). A physical body for the claim that a self changes constantly at one cost and almost never at another.
Lineage
- Grows out of
- The Woven Self · Leverage
Where it appears
Treated in
- Part Four — The Ground UnderneathThe Psychology of the Woven SelfThe experiencing self, the remembering self, and the observing self — three research traditions converging on a self that was always assembled.