Self-esteem existing seems to be a consequence of self-identities existing in the first place.
Having a self-identity in turn makes it easier for an agent to reason about how the agent should interact with it’s environment because the self-identity is where the directly accessible information the agent has about itself is stored.
It seems to me straightforward that an agent optimizes for a future state where it’s self-identity or the information it stores about itself is positive.
The book Transform Your Self by Steve Andreas provides a good layout how self-identity works for practical purposes and how one can rewrite it.
Self-esteem existing seems to be a consequence of self-identities existing in the first place.
Having a self-identity in turn makes it easier for an agent to reason about how the agent should interact with it’s environment because the self-identity is where the directly accessible information the agent has about itself is stored.
It seems to me straightforward that an agent optimizes for a future state where it’s self-identity or the information it stores about itself is positive.
The book Transform Your Self by Steve Andreas provides a good layout how self-identity works for practical purposes and how one can rewrite it.