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You are not your brain. You are a story that your brain tells itself.

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story is the wrong word. It's neither linear, coherent nor expressible in words. example: situational memory, multiple personalities.

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Few stories are linear and coherent and expressible in words. Multiple personalities are just that: multiple stories.

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Stories are expressible in words by definition. Maybe you meant the events themselves?

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Words can merely conjure stories, not express them.

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Just to make sure we have our definitions down: are stories narratives (=superimposed on a number of occurrences) or something else?

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partially ordered mental representations with a top-level event structure and motivational relevance

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I'll go along with that then. (Though for me, a story is the serialization of this; like any rich object, it loses in serialization)