When it comes to the experience of being you it seems harder to resist the intuition that it reveals a genuine property of the way things are – in this case an actual self – rather than a collection of perceptions. One intuitive consequence of assuming the existence of an actual self is that there can be only one such self, not two, or two thirds, or many. The idea that the self is somehow indivisible, immutable, transcendental, sui generis, is baked
