16: A Self of Parts

Somewhere in all this there actually is a section about 'the self' and what it could possibly be. Not HERE, I'm as sure of THAT as I am of anything. It's something like 'the mind', a convenient fiction that gives us the illusion that we can make SENSE out of our subjective view of 'the world'; without all the bother of ACTUALLY trying to make sense of it. The 'mind' is what I have, even though I don't. The 'self' is what I AM, even though I'm not. No-one (except me, apparently) wants to be 'nothing more than' a biological organism with a limited life-span and no significance whatsoever, an accidental by-product of the way things happen to be. Toddling along, making up stories, doing the best I can and falling short of every standard set by 'decent people'.