His mind had reacted instinctively to the assault and had beat a strategic retreat before his mind was completely overrun. The normal memory/self-identity processes that were used by the mind to update it’s world view had been highjacked by the transformation and had allowed it to rewrite the associational network that defined a brain’s function.. Andrew’s personality had recognized the danger and had reacted immediately. It had met the enemy and had discovered it was a younger version of himself. It moved quickly, recreating the holographicaly-based associational network in a relatively unused portion of his brain.