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When I read things like this it occurs to me: Who is the I who wrote it?

Also, anyone quoting Dawkins looses several degrees of slack.

Anyway, I have been reading some stuff going into this idea, that the individual has no independent existence and I tend to agree. I want to trouble the Egoist notions of the self as the center. One needn't go to all the trouble of brain surgery though. Of the cells in our body only about 1/2 are human. We carry many symbiotes with us. At the level of the body we are not an individual. And yet I'm pretty sure my alleles didn't tell me what to have for breakfast.

"This is the truest liberation possible, liberation from being itself"

Well, this is just bullshit. I want to be free in this world. I like being a being even if I am actually many beings. Language here is a big problem because I would say we are individuals and we are many (holobionts) at the same time. We are independent and interdependent. It is all one and it is many.