Most of what is significant and effective in experience, and even more what is insignificant and ineffective, all knowledge an conversation, is threaded through the axis of the historical self, or soul, the 'I' as spanned by as long a duration as can be taken in. None of this proves the reality of such a self, even tends to disprove it by way of the excess of scaffolding, its overdetermination, needed to keep it upright.