The Ego is a transparent mental image: You, the physical person as a whole, look right through it. You do not see it. But you see with it.

The self is not a thing, but a process.

As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from your sensory organs along the multiple neuronal pathways in your body to your brain, and they take time to be processed and transformed into objects, scenes, and complex situations. So, strictly speaking, what you are experiencing as the present moment is actually the past.

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

Only as long as we believe in our own identity over time does it make sense for us to make future plans, avoid risks, and treat our fellow human beings fairly - for the consequences of our actions will, in the end, always concern ourselves.

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.

Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself.