 Each of us is then, quite literally, composed of others, who, while coming together for a time, to work upon a common purpose, ultimately disperse, returning to a more basic (and decomposed) form of existence. That is the ultimate and, indeed, the only point of the panpsychist perspective: we may view our individual being on analogy with the cooperative workings of multiple entities, as in a larger society. Society is simultaneously an image of the self, and vice versa.