Syntax or How I Become What I Seem

Abstract

This chapter links the sequence of words and the order of biological development. Identities are also inherited through genetic sequences, learned through cultural legacy, and conditioned by habitat. Selves and social groups build through a sentiency syntax, but minds can progress contrary to the flow, using adaptive thought, and events can be non-linear. Selves progress within known ranges, so looking at other people, events, processes, and languages provides guidance as much as looking at your self. Self progresses seemingly in episodes with memory rewriting the past many times. Writing can flow in multiple directions—to elucidate itself, to progress its themes, to illuminate its author, and to seep into the audience around it—sometimes all at once.