Framing My Mental Me

I think and write a lot about mental frameworks, sometimes as if they are not a part of a person, sometimes as if they are a part of a person. On one hand, we do not always make entirely volitional choices about how we view and think about ourselves and the world so one's mental framework seems not very different from one's self; it is just part of who we are. On the other hand, there is some dynamic and volitional interplay that suggests some separation of our selves from our frameworks.

Right now I rather think one's mental framework is merely a mind's modus operandi, the way in which people interact with and think about the world and themselves. As a method and manner of doing things, it thus seems to me one's mental framework is as much a part of that person, and equally as separate and changeable, as anything else they do.