Resumen de What are you?
Westerhoff talks about people's intuitive beliefs about themselves. It would seem obvious that they exist continuously from their first moments in their mother's womb up to their death. Yet during the time that their self exists, it undergoes substantial changes in beliefs, abilities, desires and moods. There are two different models of the self they can use to explore this issue: a string of pearls and a rope. According to the first model, their self is something constant that has all the changing properties but remains itself unchanged. The second model is based on the fact that a rope holds together even though there is no single fiber running through the entire rope, just a sequence of overlapping shorter fibers. Similarly, their self might just be the continuity of overlapping mental events. It is easy to overlook the significance of this fact, but the brain accomplishes an extremely complex task in bringing about the appearance of a unified world.
