Stephen Downes

This discussion in this article is a bit loose, but it works well to put a number of considerations - ranging from intersectionality to self-identity to change and personal history - into context. "Rather than an underlying, unchanging substance that acquires and loses properties, we're making a paradigm shift to seeing the self as a process, as a cumulative network with a changeable integrity.... Think of this constancy and structure as stages of the self overlapping with, or mapping on to, one another." Also (significantly), "What philosophers call '4E views' of cognition – for embodied, embedded, enactive and extended cognition – are also a move in the direction of a more relational, less 'container', view of the self."