{
  "term": "Past Self",
  "slug": "past-self",
  "concept_id": "TBD",
  "tile_type": "construct",
  "version": "2.8",
  "updated": "2026-07-02",
  "url": "https://agencyscience.org/lexicon/past-self/",
  "in_brief": "The Past Self is the self-representation a person carries forward from prior experience: the conditioning, the wins, the losses, the identities formed along the way, plus the autobiographical story a person still tells about who they are.",
  "glossary_definition": "The Past Self is a self-representation: the past-anchored layer of identity, built from prior conditioning and the autobiographical narrative a person still carries about who they are.",
  "license": "CC BY-ND 4.0",
  "definedTermSet": "The Lexicon of Agency Science",
  "publisher": "The Institute of Agency Science",
  "author": "Steven J. Martel",
  "copyrightHolder": "Martel IP Holdings, Inc.",
  "related": []
}