I never had, and still do not have, the perception of feeling my personal identity. I appear to myself as the place where something is going on, but there is no 'I' no 'me'. Each of us is a kind of crossroads where things happen. The crossroads is purely passive: something happens there. A different thing, equally valid, happens elsewhere. There is no choice, it is just a matter of chance.

Lévi-Strauss (1979) p.4