[vinceguidry]

All definitions of things get circular at some point. What defines a chair? The set of criteria you come up with to divide chairs from other things has to invariably turn in on itself, as the hilarious exercise to define a sandwich illustrates. All identity is ultimately an illusion.

In other words, the more division you create in the world, the more 'specialness' you create. And in the immortal words of Syndrome, when everyone's special, no one is.

With a fine enough definition of thought, anything can fit the definition.