> The question is why there's some sort of proximity that I have with my comment that I don't have to yours. Because it expresses your thoughts. Your mind has

> The question is why there's some sort of proximity that I have with my comment that I don't have to yours. Because it expresses your thoughts. Your mind has access to them in a way that it does not have access to anyone else's thoughts. In particular, that access includes memories of having them and taking the actions necessary to post them. If you lost those memories, and your words were not identified as being yours, you would no longer regard them any differently than you do anyone else's (it is not even certain that you would agree with them.) Note that the above statements involve no presupposition of materialism, but they are consistent with it. In particular, from a physical point of view, it is obvious why one would only have privileged access to one's own thoughts and experiences.