It’s really important to me to preserve my inherited credibility as a member of our pact! If I squander that credibility, the best my future selves will be able to do is to blindly follow their local interests, and the global interest we’d all prefer to see realized might become irreversibly inaccessible.
Arguably that describes the function of the self and maybe (partly) why it evolved: To better coordinate over time. There is probably overlap with modeling other agents in this way too.
This suggests sharp criteria for which animals have selves in this sense.
Arguably that describes the function of the self and maybe (partly) why it evolved: To better coordinate over time. There is probably overlap with modeling other agents in this way too.
This suggests sharp criteria for which animals have selves in this sense.