Imaginary Individuals

Having successfully refuted the concept of individual death [see my article in Lapham's Quarterly, www.laphamsquarterly.org/essays/in-the-midst-of-death.php] , I now move on to my next metaphysical conquest, over the illusion of individual consciousness, or rather the demonstration of how individual consciousness is created by historical forces (including our history as organisms) and the impossibility of consciousness without those forces.  

An interesting prologue to such considerations is i...