Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Personal Identity
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IV - Memory and Design
“It is the rare person who can stand aside and observe that our minds and identities are largely constructs of our social order, that we are abstract and arbitrary collections of ideas that resemble dusty archives in the galleries of a museum, visited by nobody, and maintained by a series of those insensible robots that are our habits.”
— Justina Robson, book Natural History
Source: Natural History (2003), Chapter 25 “Tom Who Built the Aeroplane” (pp. 254-255)
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