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In my capacity as an author, when sitting at the desk using a pen, the term I identifies me with the body; but in my capacity as a creator of the thoughts expressed in the writing, it identifies me with the mind. It is quite proper to use the term in both cases, but which of the references is I myself? Moreover, when I sleep and dream recurringly of living in France during the Revolutionary period, the term I is still appropriated to the figure saved from the guillotine, for who is the dreamer but myself? My sense of the I changes with each of these situations. But looking more closely into them, one thing emerges as being common to all the Is--consciousness!

-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 1 : What Am I? > # 84