So thinking in terms of an ‘I’ now looks like a formal or structural requirement on interpreting experience in the way we do—as experience of a three-dimensional world of continuing objects, amongst which we move. The ‘I’ is the point of view from which interpretation starts. It is not something else given in experience, because nothing given in experience could solve the formal problem for which an ‘I’ is needed. But a point of view is always needed: to represent a scene to yourself is to represent yourself as experiencing it one way or another.
This is part of the "I" that Sam Harris wants us to see as an illusion, like when he asked listeners to imagine that, while walking, we are stationary and objects are moving toward us, or that nothing was moving and everything was simply in its place.
