The fact is, though, that even when we're alone, we're a profoundly social creature. We're not a solitary mind built out of properties that kept it alive in the world independent of other people. In fact, our minds depend on other people. They depend on other people, and they're expressed in other people, so the notion of who you are, you often don't know who you are until you see yourself in interaction with people that are close to you, people that are enemies of you, people that are agnostic to you.
La realidad, sin embargo, es que incluso cuando estamos solos, somos criaturas completamente sociales. No somos una mente solitaria construida mediante propiedades que la mantienen viva en el mundo independiente de otras personas. De hecho, nuestras mentes dependen de otras personas. Ellas dependen de otras personas, y son expresadas en otras personas, entonces la noción de lo que tú eres, solo te es clara justo en el momento en el que te ves interactuando con otras personas cercanas a ti, personas que sean enemigas tuyas, personas que te vean con reserva.