“I can’t tell you how much time I’ve spent contemplating the fact that every morning I wake up as me, and not as someone else.
There’s 8 billion people in the world, why I am persistently me? What is it about me that makes me ‘me’, every day I wake up?”
“The other possibility is, in fact, you’re overestimating the extent to which you remain you from day to day.
There’s a phenomenon in perception called ‘change blindness’.
One way change blindness can happen is that, if something changes very slowly, then we don’t perceive the change. Our perception can change, but we don’t experience the change of perception.
Something like that might well be happening with the self. Our experience of self is changing just a little bit day by day. But because it changes so slowly, we never experience ourselves as changing, or we do so only when we compare it like ‘oh, what was I like 10 years ago, 20 years ago?’ And then you think, ‘ah, I’m actually maybe quite different.’
Neil deGrasse Tyson e Anil Seth
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