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.