There is no problem with “I”—it makes sense to refer to the human speaking as “I”. The problem is with ascribing non-physical irreducible causality. Blame and responsibility are (comparatively) effective coordination mechanisms, that’s why societies that had it outcompeted those that didn’t. It doesn’t matter that the explanation is non-physical.
It might be that we know a language that originally didn’t have personal pronouns: Pirahã. And a culture with a high value on no-coercion, which means that expectations of conforming are absent. There is an aspect of consciousness—the awareness of the difference between expected and actual behaviors—that might just not develop in such a context.
There is no problem with “I”—it makes sense to refer to the human speaking as “I”. The problem is with ascribing non-physical irreducible causality. Blame and responsibility are (comparatively) effective coordination mechanisms, that’s why societies that had it outcompeted those that didn’t. It doesn’t matter that the explanation is non-physical.
It might be that we know a language that originally didn’t have personal pronouns: Pirahã. And a culture with a high value on no-coercion, which means that expectations of conforming are absent. There is an aspect of consciousness—the awareness of the difference between expected and actual behaviors—that might just not develop in such a context.