I think from the author's shoes it is a lie, but only because the author has a better model of the mind than most. The accurate view of the mind is that there i

I think from the author's shoes it is a lie, but only because the author has a better model of the mind than most. The accurate view of the mind is that there is not just one consciousness in there, but many. The lie is that there is an "I". He seems angry when people oversimplify and say "people have one consciousness and DeBoer's is bad", rather than "people have many consciousnesses, and DeBoer has at least one that is bad". But I also wouldn't rule out the idea that even if our speaking about people as a single consciousness is a gross over-simplification it might be a better strategy for society at large. (Disclosure: currently reading A Thousand Brains and Society of Mind and very much under the influence of the many minds idea at present)