It is unclear to me at what point the idea of a self emerges, and whether it is a by-product of collections of image-and-spoken based thoughts out of which repetition self-encodes a self.
Furthermore, does this self exist outside of the abstractness of language, imagery and thought?

It’s clear that the modulation of perception of grammatical time and abstract space alters contextual-perception and ultimately affects decisions. This is a different kind of space and time and not that of matter but mind, devoid of any actual space and time.

It is not the case that whatever is perceptions of what is experienced within follows the rules under which the outer or boundaries obey. Particularly, time and space aren’t the same.

Thought is quite evolutionarily advantageous because of the properties of abstraction that supersede the constraints of physically embedded matter within the material world. However, as organisms shape their material world into oversurvival, you reach an inversal of function into disease state.

You’re only as fast as the people in front of you unless you find the narrow path through which you can surpass them.