  We can shift the focus from the action of the individual historical body to the interaction between distinct individuals, with the world as the mediating space of mutual formation. In fact, Nishida maintains that the individual, precisely as distinct, entails a plurality of interrelated individuals.  The relation between “I and Thou” was the first part that Nishida considered, although he continued to intertwine that relation with an internal relation in self-awareness.  Where his previous analysis of individual self-awareness described it as a self-reflection of the universal of self-awareness, his description now incorporated the dimension of recognition. My recognition of you as not me makes me who I am, and your recognition of me as not-you makes you who you are. Each is a relative other to the self.