What Is the Difference Between Self and Other?

A form does not have to care about persisting, and that there's nothing rational or logical about caring to persist as any particular form. For form to persist at all, it must be able to distinguish itself and tell to itself what is it that is being persisted so it has to crucially draw distinction between self and other. I am the form, and everything else is my environment. It's other to me. Other forms, or the environment, is a whole. And so what i have to do to maintain my sense of self is to now manipulate either myself or the environment in order to make sure tat distinctions are maintained. As soon as that distinction is lost, what happens to