Border control

pp. 43-106

in: Daniel Kolak, I am you, Berlin, Springer, 2004

Abstract

The proverbial man on the street, more than likely, believes that the seemingly obvious, common-sense distinction implied by concept pairs like "me and you," "inner world and outer world," 'subject and object," 'self and other," and so on, based on his apparent ability to control immediately certain borders directly in his experience at the exclusion of others necessarily precludes the possibility that he is everyone. Is this belief correct?