“Our sense of ourselves as a static person — a ramified identity — the sense to which we attach worries, fears, evaluations, expectations and histories — is a fictional artifact of a deceptive and compelling strategy organized and sustained by complex interplays of cultural and intrapersonal agreement.

Because the metaphor for the self is a static ‘person’, we are subject to endless delusional agonies which have nothing really to do with us other than being possible extrapolations of some perspective taken in approach to this artifact.

The actual nature of the self is liquid, hypercooperative, curious, autodidactic, and oriented toward experiences of development and the opportunity to express character in a fashion reminiscent of a plant’s heliotropia. The self with which the artifact is associated should never be replaced by it, and is fluidly sensitive to relational and contextual cues that effectively render it into a unique way of experimental ’empersoning’ rather than a static self that should be named, labeled, categorized, and sorted into its appropriate slot.”

— an anonymous informant