WhiteDwarf : Consider asking Neutron where he gets his identity from.

Seems like a good idea to you.

WhiteDwarf: Is there a green light next to "N-ALIGN"?
Neutron: Yeah.
WhiteDwarf: Hold it where it is and don't move. Hit "CAL" when I give the signal.
WhiteDwarf: I'll be disoriented by neural calibration. Keep talking, keep me focused.

And so you ask more about them.

WhiteDwarf: How can everything else besides that zealous idealistic enthusiasm be more exhausting?
Neutron: Energy spent rationalizing.
Neutron: Energy spent stressing out about better, more altruistic things you could do.
Neutron: Trying to figure out how to be a good person and also not give everything you own away.
Neutron: Living through nine to five work, spending time you could help people with on work that doesn't help anyone.
Neutron: We live in a society.
WhiteDwarf: What?
Neutron: Nothing.
Neutron: Everyone has to spend energy figuring out ways to justify not going wild and diving into the Grey Tide if they're not acting according to objectives.
WhiteDwarf: This has some connection with that Grey Tide you mentioned?
Neutron: The Verdant Text is being the self. Grey Tide is obliterating the self. I think.
WhiteDwarf: And to be the self, you need these objectives.
Neutron: Yeah.
WhiteDwarf: How do you find them? Where do you get your identity? How does your identity become objectives, goals, this... Verdant Text?