ABSTRACT
Societies, selves, bodies and brains are all of a piece, albeit a very big piece. Challenges over time,
as both biological and cultural evolution teach us, supply the momentum for their
interdependencies. Self, considered as a locative system, could not exist without the extraordinary
navigational machinery of the brain in its body, nor could it be without the hugely complex range
of route maps for surviving and thriving supplied by culture.