This lovely inscrutability of pure reason harks back to an earlier account of the role of logic in the universe. From his home in Cordova, the twelfth-century Muslim philosopher Averroës (Ibn Rushd) in his studies of Aristotle concluded that what is immortal in human beings is not their soul but their capacity for reason. Reason is immortal exactly because it is not specific to any individual; instead, it is the common property of all reasoning beings.
