Is the 'I' necessary? Listener question

I’m finishing up the year the way I began it by going through the HOME course. It’s so nice of you to have updated the course with words that now make it so very much more relatable. (Joke) 

I’m amazed at how much more depth of resonance there is with this course and with the subliminals. I’m deeply grateful. 

A question comes to mind. It’s hard to express but I guess the essence of it is, does consciousness in form need an “I” to experience life in form? Is that why it bubbles up?

I know there are people who write or speak about having had a major shift and declare the “I” totally gone or perhaps have a pervasive awareness of the illusory nature of the “I.” 

It seems to me for each being in form there is a body/mind system running the daily activities of, if you will, the tube. I get that consciousness or whatever perceives all, creates all, is all.

Yet, it seems curious to me that beings in form as part of their design develop personalities which include an I. This uniqueness gives rise to unique expression, unique creativity, reactivity, etc. 

If it’s part of the design of us all, it must be some aspect of truth. Does consciousness in form “need” this to experience duality/form? And yet there’s a pull back to consciousness without it. 

This both/and-not have my poor brain in a spin. My heart is fine with it all. 

Would you share how you see this?