"cached selves"

[darren_stranger]

Cam posted a link to an interesting article the other week, about how our future behaviour and choices are influenced by even small things we say and do:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/4e/cached_selves/

It's interesting, not just because it mirrors some of the ways that i've seen karma explained, in that every thing we do, say or even think influences how our lives will play out in some way, through conditioning our habits and predispositions, but also in the mechanism for this process being the creation of a new self-concept in each moment, which corresponds quite closely with some explanations of the 'birth' link in the cycle of Dependent Origination.

Another piece of the jigsaw to ponder.