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From conception to death, asleep or awake, we construct our selves in each and every moment and in ever increasing detail — developing perhaps like a holograph.. There is then no static self. It is adaptive and dynamic, in lockstep with time. Knowable only to their selves, they can only completely be known to God; nonetheless, to us our selves seem somehow changeless.
The terms 'mind', 'soul', and 'ego' are widely contested. Here the term 'mind' is used to refer to the aspect of a BEING that mediates its choices; 'soul' to the aspect of them which is ineffable; and 'ego' to the aspect of them that they 'identify' as themselves. The term self then here refers to the conscious, unconscious, pre-conscious and sub-conscious expressions of an individual's 'mind', 'ego', and body, together with any aspect of their temporal biological reality which corresponds to their 'soul'.
In the 70's, I understood that a holograph —the image of an object from which a reconstruction (a hologram) of that object can be made in it's absence— had the property that it encoded an object completely at all resolutions i.e. that as the physical and informational size of a holograph grows, or shrinks, only the degree of detail of the object recorded increases or decreases. If then a holograph is broken into pieces, the recorded object can be 'recreated' from any of them with a degree of detail commensurate with the physical/informational size of the piece used. It is this recalled quality of a holograph that I use here as an analogy for the self and its construction —whether in fact I correctly ascribe this quality to a holograph, however, I have been unable to ascertain.
It is as correct, as it is incorrect, to say that hormones create love, as to say that love creates hormones.