It is redundant to demonstrate the non-existence of an enduring self etc. on the basis of the 'I' that occurs in present-time waking awareness, together with its associated roles in memory and expectation. These are necessarily evanescent and discontinuous just as most of everyday purposiveness is without consequence. The texture of moment to moment experience, lived experience, Erlebnisse, the home of the qualia, is indeed something remarkable and impossible to explain in 'objective' terms, but it is not the open door to the self which exists in an entirely different kind of temporality, incompatible with the series of passing moments. Where these two intersect there are phenomena of meaning, but again mapping this meaning back into passing time looses its essence. The self is enduring because it is found in the enduring, something which cannot be measured or quantified.