We’re guilty, globally, of assuming otherness, in a sense that is not intended to imply a lack of uniqueness in inter-intra personal identity (for there is much, and we must avoid the fatal error of intentional-or-otherwise ego collapse; you and I are distinct things; there is no universal I; there is only a universal “we”--the assumption of singularity is to believe strictly in limitation) .  Otherness here is intended to mean a much more subtle, but much more fatal,  abrogation: that we are distinct things from the world, that we exist outside of it, transcend it, are not made of the same stuff as her, are not really wearing her skin hermit-crab-like: on loan, briefly.


Preface:
I had a vision not all that long ago standing in a field. I struggled to think whether the meaning was found inside or outside, but then I realized that I am never outside my inside, nor would this be possible, and the deadly confusion of the two surely cannot ever take place, because certainly my insides are my insides and my outsides are my outsides, necessarily, for me to be me and we to be we.  So then I saw us all little thumbs or nubs on a great circle, feeling and thinking as we do, and it occurred to me that as we think and feel so does She. So there is some sort of proof that there are places in the world that accord meaningfully. By virtue of being you or I we we provide proof that there is something more than sheer matter populating an unfeeling universe that infinitely extends up and down. There is, the vastness, subjectivity, embedded, maybe subordinate, but certainly there.  Interior and exterior imply each other, but the insideness of me or you is an internal, twofold,  insideness. So then to think or feel is to, by transitivity, say that the world thinks or feels--or at least a part of the world is thinking or feeling something in that moment--and to say otherwise is to cleave a chasm that there is no chance of crossing. The Eleatics, a very long time ago, found a similar abyss between one step and another: the proof  of movement was the fact that it is possible at all.  To move from the interior to the exterior is, similarly, possible by proof of the ability to realize meaning.