Okay—got it. What I don’t grasp is why you would care about the inner narrative of any particular instance of “you” when the persistence of that instance makes negligible material difference to all the other things you care about.
Maybe the same why as why do some people care more about their families than about other people’s families. Why some people care more about themselves than about strangers. What I can’t grasp is how one would manage to so thoroughly eradicate or suppress such a fundamental drive.
I don’t understand the response. Are you saying that the reason you don’t have an egocentric world view and I do is in some way because of kin selection?
Maybe the same why as why do some people care more about their families than about other people’s families. Why some people care more about themselves than about strangers. What I can’t grasp is how one would manage to so thoroughly eradicate or suppress such a fundamental drive.
What, kin selection? Okay, let me think through the implications...
I don’t understand the response. Are you saying that the reason you don’t have an egocentric world view and I do is in some way because of kin selection?
You said,
And why do people generally care more about their families than about other people’s families? Kin selection.