It is also the autobiographical self – through the narrative that it creates about itself – that makes life something more than what the American writer, artist, and philosopher Elbert Hubbard once called “one damn thing after another.” And our brains are wired to figure out what other selves are thinking and feeling.
自传式自我——通过它为自己所创造的叙事（narrative）——让生活比美国作家、艺术家兼哲学家阿尔伯特·哈伯特（Elbert Hubbard）所说的“一件鸟事接着又一件鸟事”更有意义。我们的大脑被设定了一种功能，即发现其他自我在想什么、感觉怎样。