“‘Of course her use of “I” is premised (predicated) on memory, so there’s also a narrative “I” in place, of course. However, her body is »lost from her memory of herself; she is reported to say “I have forgotten what it’s like, to »feel.” To follow John Paris’ terminology, “feeling her body has been erased from her self-file, and so from her self »notion.”

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there’s a continuity of memory, so there »is a narrative line, no question, but, more fundamentally, rational unity of mental activity, namely, mental activity, engaged in rationally unifying mental content, including her recollections…