In everything requiring a self-reflection you are represented by a symbol or gesture of general agency, a momentary image of a person-like thing. This is entirely natural and conversationally functional, but the kind of thing that is in view could in reality have any of the attributes and powers f the self. It would be far more correct to see all of the contextual factors that make such a stand-in subject possible as the subject, as mood and time and space - things that don't think, are silent but full of all the life that there is.