ABSTRACT
Self-continuity is central to human life and allows us to understand how the ordered regularity of human behaviour and cognition can emerge and be maintained. The temporal structure plays an important role in bridging the gaps between different discrete points in time. By linking together the neural activities at different discrete points in time, the brain’s intrinsic activity acquires a certain degree of temporal continuity. Time and space are constructed in a dynamic way; that is, they provide a connection between different points in past, present, future time and space, and space points. This dynamic time-space construction makes it possible to continuously integrate the different inputs from the body and the Self, thus linking, connecting, and glueing them up. The different space–time points where the Self and the body are located are no longer connected by some kind of underlying spatial and temporal continuity; therefore, they remain purely objective without becoming subjective.
