Guilt or shame or responsibility are only so many forms or vehicles that the pervasive tenor called egoity takes on, they represent no ultimate in any way, and many other variants are possible, but are typical as drawn forth by a certain evolutionary inheritance. More generally what is it? A sort of concerned delineation within a still shadowy and half-awake knowingness, crystallisations in a still cloudy medium. In another respect, more strictly evolutionary, they might also represent a kind of 'back-door' or 'Trojan-horse' accessible to social programming, or the need for the burgeoning self-awareness to not be able to know itself too well so as to avoid being wholly enclosed in its own defences, a necessary opening, a necessary way of being traitor to oneself.