SEPARATENESS

the human being is not a walled construction. the asymmetry created by the membrane separating any animal from matter outside itself is porous, permeable, and it is necessarily, essentially so. the really tiresome philosophical notion of separateness, of isolation, that inhabits nearly all of so-called modern philosophy, unravels like an ego-driven useless tangled ball of string in the face of simple logical questioning. yes, there is ‘me’. and yes, there is ‘everything not me’. but ‘me’ includes the collected surviving strategies from the past, inhabiting us from conception, integral to us through our genetic inheritance; also our physical nature and presence, including not only our bodies but much of our perception, behavior and thought. the whole notion of an individual is in a larger sense a rather dubious proposition, and along with that realization should come a serious uneasiness about free will and the division of actions into intentional and inherent. 

in this quest for singular uniqueness we are attempting to punch way above our pay-grade and it will never produce anything better than this tangled ball of string we presently still call 'philosophy'.