However, just as we say that it is the same house
because its other structural features remain intact, what stays the same about me (better: what constitutes the «me» that is continued sameness) is the background, contextual structure of other behavioral
patterns against the stable presence of which a given
habitual change is noticed and contrasted.
Because plants and animals take their
habitual cues from the seasonal rise in temperatures and the increasing amount of daylight that come in the spring, warming can distort their well - established behavioral
patterns.