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the “Self” does not change Allameh Tabatabai based
and therefore is not material. the principle on the existence
Anyone who refers to himself of an incorporeal being and
will find that he has always considers the opposite to be
been one and remains the the result of neglecting this
same and that there has not principle.
been the slightest change in Bergson's book “Creative
him. (Tabatabai, 1997, Evolution” begins with the
Vol. 1: 365) concept that “I am constantly
This point is simple and changing”. (Bergson, 1969: 12)
being busy with daily material Although we stipulate this
work and worldly life causes truth in our tongues that we
people to neglect the “Change”, we speak of the
incorporeality of self. states of our souls as if they
(Ibid: 180) were solid. (Pearson et al,
It can be said that what 2020: 161)
does not change is the In other words, there is no
“Identity” of a person, not his passivity or request that does
“Self”; Identity is the thing not change at every moment.
that makes the person of the Any mental state will have a
past to be the same as an duration if it does not change;
identical to the current Even if we consider the most
person. Identity is a mixture still states of mind, for
of a set of characteristics that example, observing a
have been formed over time motionless external object,
and transferred from cells to and suppose that object
each other. remains fixed and my angle of
