I argue that Daniel Dennett makes two important contributions to thinking philosophically about the notion of self. First, his narrative conception of the self (self as the "center of narrative gravity"). Second, his concept of 'real patterns' which, when applied to the self, forces us to rethink the idea of self as a center of narrative gravity. If we understand the self as a self-pattern, then it is more than a center of narrative gravity. Self-narrative is only one factor in the self-pattern although it plays two important roles: (a) as one among other elements of the self-pattern it contributes to self-constitution; (b) self-narrative reflects all the other significant factors that make up the self-pattern. Accordingly, as Dennett himself suggested, self-narrative "is a much more complicated concept" than an abstract center of gravity.
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