They don't refer to an objective truth, and only appear relative to a suitable systemic decomposition. You can also say that you are the representative of the set of parasites that have convinced you that they are you.
I think that agency only makes sense as part of a model of an intentional system: Something must care. The universe is very likely not equipped with means and reasons to care, and even if it did, that could not manifest in ways that ground our own agency.
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The translation of human-centric motives to the possible agency of the universe doesn't hold up, but that doesn't mean the universe doesn't have some impetus to develop that includes the emergence of intelligent agents within it.
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I think that it may not be the universe, but evolution, and the universe just holds the possibility for evolution. And the global optimum of evolution is not the conscious mind, but the perfect devourer. We are just a defective local optimum.
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