I left the following comment on the youtube video of the Overthink Podcast episode 125:
Personhood, self, and subject are not only indispensable, but there is nothing that gets more indispensable than these properties. [The property of personhood, selfhood, or subjectivity.] Not only do we have evidence of the self, but we have the strongest possible evidence: direct access, or Russellian acquaintance. Often when something is obvious we say it's "Right in front of you." The self is that which is necessary for there to be a "right in front of you" in the first place. You cannot possibly get more "right in front of you" than the self; it is the front in front of all fronts. To put it candidly, any theory that requires you to reject the notion of the self (or mind, consciousness, person, subject, or soul – the self-evident aspect common to these terms), not only can you know that that theory is false, but you can know it with certainty.
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