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.
Činjenica je da čak i kada smo sami, potpuno smo društvena bića. Nismo usamljen um izgrađen od svojstava koji bi ga održali živim u svijetu odvojenom od ostalih ljudi. Zapravo, naši umovi ovise o drugim ljudima. Ovise o drugim ljudima i izraženi su kroz druge kao i pojam toga tko ste, često ne znate tko ste dok se ne vidite kako komunicirate s bliskim ljudima, s ljudima koji su vam neprijatelji i s ljudima koji su vam nepoznati.