The self as a discrete entity, or a kind of functioning as if of a discrete entity which were it to exist would underpin and motivate all self-reflexive events, an endlessly qualified and qualifying quasi phenomenon is the only system which regrets its own absence. It cannot be done away with, since it was never there to begin with, but the associated systems and cycles can be de-activated at which it is found that a great burden drops, at no cost, and everything is at ease and perfectly positioned.