Feeling or thinking can be detached in mood when not coloured by positive or negative valuations. In this case there is merely a kind of contentment or willing of what is, which embraces the self, but in a weak way, since there is no reason why or why not such a state should persist. When the self is strongly implicated in valuations then will is correspondingly aroused so that it seems as if the language of energy provides the best description of the situation. The informal use of this concept derives from the phenomena of contagion and of signature or spectrum, whereby a node charged with a particular kind of energy - heat, sound, electromagnetism etc. - tends to induce the same kind of energy in neighbouring nodes. Thus the valuations with which the self is identified take on the character of a semi-autonomous energy field whose spectra can be resolved into a variety of proto-narratives embodying different forms and intensities of care. The subject of these narratives is merely a formal self, a who-ever, but they are rigidly aligned and filled or set alight by the energy field of which they are a part. Self is what puts fire into a formal structure without itself being fire; whatever can do this is a self, and once it is done it is almost impossible to distinguish self from the living resultant. To experience an other is to experience their energetic vortex, which can only be sensed from within one's own.