If you were to sit down and have a candid conversation with that aspect of yourself which is not intoxicated with wrong-knowing, you would be told that the person you think you are is no more closely related to what you really are than anyone else. Not only are you not you, you bear no resemblance to you and have no relationship to you. You could just as easily be anyone else, and maybe you are. In fact, you might be everyone and everything else. In fact, maybe you must be. This whole personal identity business unravels very quickly once you get a bit above it, and it doesn’t unravel a little,
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