This becamse too long for a comment

So what I see happening here is the artificial creation of alterity. In separating yourself and dividing yourself, you create Others within that you are unable or unwilling to work with(which might explain your paranoid tendencies).

When Jack said, "I posit that we do not exist as the same person through time either. That can be crudely extracted from the ramble I had about it." I wonder if you meant person as synonymous with identity. From where I'm coming from, a "person" has multiple, multiplex identities (they exist across many media in many contexts) over time. These identities change and evolve and how we interact with them changes and evolves but the underlying person (though for clarity's sake I think I would prefer the term "existence") remains constant.

In comparing these existences at various points along a temporal curve, we find that they have differences. If I take the stance that a person is defined by their identities, then they are not the same person, but in that the snapshots I am taking of this existence are removed from the same curve the existence this person comes from is the same.

You create the alterity by removing the common context of the underlying existence.

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In writing this I've had to travel to the past.

http://widdershinwritings.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-keep-getting-lost.html
http://widdershinwritings.blogspot.com/2009/04/space-administration.html
http://widdershinwritings.blogspot.com/2010/04/acelessthan3-revisited-part-one.html

But I've also had to reach for what some people would call an attempt at the future:

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/02/atemporality-for-the-creative-artist/

I've also visited other sources:

http://cirqueduaugmentedrealities.blogspot.com/

My culture, or rather this post, is networked.

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I have a jogging final to get to, so I'm going to continue this later.