“The only states of consciousness that we naturally deal with are…minds, selves, concrete particular I’s and you’s…Neither contemporaneity, nor proximity in space, nor similarity of quality and content are able to fuse thoughts together which are sundered by this barrier of belonging to different personal minds.” - William James, The Principals of Psychology (1890)

Consciousness is a meaning-making machine. Human beings are wired around the concept of narrative - through the telling of stories, we attempt the impossible feat of truly understanding another individual.