I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

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