Our awareness is who says "I" at the moment...although that's an overly simplified way to look at it.
"I" is also usually the person who is looking out of our eyes, essentially pressed up against the window in our head (our visual interface) that we call "Front".
I is a commodity that can be distributed although that's much harder than sharing Front. Several people can blend and share I without discomfort, but splitting it amongst several separate entities is territory heading for a migrane quickly. That's not the same thing as rapid switching, which is playing hot potato with "I" amongst several people who are probably sharing Front.
I and Front may not be synonymous. The jury is out on that...our mind can wander, the first-person perspective ("I") can walk out of the Front, and wander around in our head taking awareness with it, leaving our body essentially in a trance-state (at best -- someone else *can* take Front over and continue doing things while our mind wanders away -- this is tantamount to time loss and doesn't happen to us in any large capacity that we're aware of...but then we might just not be aware of it). If we lay down and meditate, "I" goes with whoever has it and can travel through our body, through shamanic or astral gateways, into other dimensions, visit people elsewhere, perform hypnotic suggestions on our mind, etc. So it's not always "Front". Someone takes "I" into dreamscapes when we sleep and has dreams. Someone, not always the same person who went to sleep or was dreaming, brings "I" back to Front in the morning when we wake up...
At one point we used to use "I" to denote Almerissa. That behavior no longer exists. We're no longer "Me, Myself & I" when discussing our multiplicity without having it be quite obvious.
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