The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sen… - Erwin Schrödinger

" "

The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.