For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive level of representational content in one's currently active phenomenal self-model: It has, episodically, become a dynamic inner model of a knowing self.

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.

Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.

The self is not a thing, but a process.

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.

Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all.