For example, the close symmetry of brain hemispheres obscures the power in the asymmetry of hemispheric functions. My central argument concerns language as an exo-somatic human system: nature is renewed by the human potential for heuristic (“as if”) modelling. But the most crucial consequence of this renewal is the inauguration of a first person with 2 dimensions – a double self, in which I and ME have inevitable, but crucially differentiated, meanings. This differentiation comes about from grammatical equations in which the fundamental analogic power of language is employed: the simple claim that “one thing is another” (NB. one only needs to say “x is y” when it is not already obvious). When applied to the first person – the “ME and I” of William James – the claim of identification through analogy adds a new dimension to experience, and a “serpent’s promise” (Jones, 2013).
