see the diagram below. the summation of persons pi emerge into a narrative Np. this narrative is caused by a multiplicity of different persons connected in the series by q-memories and q-desires. the narrative hierarchy supervenes as one, but this one changes depending which persons are "given a voice" at a particular time as well as the stimulus that causes the narrative to be given: i.e., it's not the same to talk to your girlfriend that talk about yourself in front of a class.
See the Np as the intersection of q-memories and q-desires of not only you many other people: parents, family, even ethnic groups, etc. So, Np supervenes on you. You could try to alter your Np, but only to some degree. Why? Because all these different persons have ways of "showing up" simply because it's impossible to keep them disconnected.
Np can be episodic or diachronic, depending how much "different" these persons are perceived in the overlapping series. If the overlapping of persons is continuous we call it diachronic. If the account is fragmentary and divisive, we call it episodic.
The dissociation phenomenon
Now, if the Np ends up differing so much from the actual individual, we have a dissociation problem.
See the definition above, it means that all of a sudden you have memories and desires rushing through that you yourself cannot make sense of. Imagine this for a second. All your persons containing all your q-memories and q-desires "hover" in this continuum that we call Np. But now the person experiences the irruption of "persons" she doesn't recognize.
Take a look at these two famous cases of DID.
CONCLUSIONS:
A UNIFIED NARRATIVE (Np) SEEMS as a necessary condition for a MORAL AGENT.
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