This is a good point to stress. Our Robinson Crusoe Cartesians like to take a result as if it were the given itself. I may end up a taciturn Heraclitus too wise for the company of others, but I started as a baby who couldn't lift my neck and (presumably) without even a concept that I was this self as locus of responsibility, tracked for what becomes 'my' promise-keeping and the reliability of 'my' wolf-reporting.
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