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 The subject which has most interested me for many, many years is the simple question, who
 or what am I?
 What do we mean by the word "I"?
 And I find as I investigate this question and talk with all kinds of people, that generally
 speaking the word "I" refers to something that we sense or experience as a center of
 consciousness and decision, living somewhere inside a bag of skin.
 Common speech reflects this in many ways.
 We say "face facts."
 We talk about being confronted with reality.
 And we talk about the difference between the knower and the known, the subjective and the
 objective, the internal thinker and feeler facing an external world.
 We say "I came into this world."
 I find there is therefore a general sense that I am something to which this external
 world is a stranger, that there is a feeling that there's deep hostility between the subject
 and the object.
 And this again reflects itself in our common language, where we talk about the conquest
 of nature, the conquest of space, and the conquest of great mountains like Everest.
 And all that this adds up to is that the human being experiences himself to be very lonely
 and feels that death is a terrifying threat because he's been brought up in our kind of