Vertiginous question

Benj Hellie's vertiginous question asks why, of all the subjects of experience out there, this one—the one corresponding to the human being referred to as Benj Hellie—is the one whose experiences are lived? (The reader is supposed to substitute their own case for Hellie's.)^[1] In other words: Why am I me and not someone else?

A simple response is that this question reduces to "Why are Hellie's experiences lived from Hellie's perspective," which is trivial to answer. However, Hellie argues, through a parable, that this response leaves something out. His parable describes two situations, one reflecting a broad global constellation view of the world and everyone's phenomenal features, and one describing an embedded view from the perspective of a single subject.^{[further explanation needed]} The former seems to align better with the simple response above,^[why?] but the latter seems to be a better description of consciousness.