[quote]You aren't to your body as a guy in Pacific Rim is to a giant robot - that is a common misconception; you do not 'govern' your actions; you are your actions. But you've been taught an arbitrary distinction between 'actor' and 'action' so you insist that there must be an actor behind your bodily actions. There isn't. Who are 'you'? A collection of perceptions and memories bound together by a husk of skin and bone and blood. Nothing 'sees through' your eyes, there is just the seeing. Nothing 'feels through' your fingers, there is just the feeling. By ascribing the perceptions to 'yourself', all you're really doing is acknowledging that the perceptions are made sense of in the same place, ie: your brain, but that doesn't imply any sort of 'self' at all. You have consciousness, but that isn't indicative of anything special about you in particular. After all, we all feel the same basic thing. Our perceptions, memories and thoughts are all different from one another, but the 'consciousness' itself, that is, our feeling of 'being' and our ability to reflect on that, is the same thing no matter who we are or what we have experienced. We all share the same feeling of 'I' even though we have different thoughts feelings and perceptions built around it. So what is the evidence that that feeling of 'I' is something special to each and every one of us individually, and not instead a single experience in which we all collectively share, but which our thoughts, perceptions and experiences convince us otherwise of? Just because I can put two different socks on my feet, that doesn't mean my feet aren't part of one continuous object (me); it's just that the bits of my feet that you have to look at to find out they are one continuous object are the bits not covered by the socks. In the same way, ignore the part of 'you' that is your thoughts and feelings and perceptions and it will be easier to see the continuous and impersonal nature of the grounding of your 'being'.[/quote]