Moreover, it runs contrary to human experience. Each of us experiences the inescapable, irresistible sense of being a coherent self—an active center of consciousness—not merely a passive locus of colliding social forces. Even as we undergo life changes, we are aware of an enduring core personal identity. The universality of this first-person awareness, even among those whose worldview denies it, is a clue that it is intrinsic to human experience. We are so constituted that we cannot live consistently on the basis of the postmodernists’ radical reductionism. And neither can they. The truths of
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