"you are a human and not a chair and you know that because you consciously or unconsciously draw a boundary line between humans and chairs, and are able to recognize your identity with the former." (4)

This line makes a lot of sense to me, now, in comparison to when Sam talked about it when I was a freshmen. It's amazing because it's so true. i do create boundary lines between how i want see myself and the person that i really am. this line reminds me about "i think, therefore i am." its saying that because i create a boundary line between myself and the chair, i am human and the cahir is not. i strikes me because we can create boundary lines between anything and everything. when asked the question , "who are you" we can be anything and we can describe ourselves as everything because we control the boundary lines that we create.

"this boundary line between the mind and the body is certainly a strange one, not at all present at birth" (6)

the distinction between the physical and the mind is constructed by humans. we are not born with boundary lines and it's facsinating how much control our minds have over the way that our physical bodies react. this also talks about how much room there is to change. we can adjust and alter our own boudaries line because there really is no such thing. we have a lot of control over our own lives and how we are percieved and or want to be.