We look at things in the world as though they're trying to accomplish some kind of goal.
Take a flower. We say things like, its purpose is to attract insects. We play with the idea that it cares about attracting insects and makes that its goal. But really, the flower isn't aware of insects at all. It isn't even "trying" to proliferate.
The magic is that the flower just is. It is what it is, and it is a process. Really it's a part of the whole process of Life.
We tend to personify things, as in, we imagine things as having a perspective in consciousness that they identify with. A viewport into the world that they individually see as "me". Even though we don't tend to think of trees and rocks as being conscious, we sort of do see them as being "themselves". But a rock and a tree don't hold an idea of "me". Neither does a young baby.
There's a foundational assumption that we make every day.
We assume that being conscious of a unique perspective or vantage point (provided by the body+mind) makes us individuals.
But what if our individual vantage point (ie our person-ness) has nothing to do with who we actually are?
