With gratitude to the Rambam I have deduced the following (Chapter 2 Law 10) we are both a perceiver – in fact, that is what a soul is (now it may be, the elusive matter of the soul that no one knows or sees in essence is G-d, but practically) what makes us us, is the fact that a. we can perceive (hence someone G-d-forbid asleep, in a faint, or coma, actually is not them) however we then become our perceptions –