I actually think that your internal dialogue was a pretty accurate representation of what I was failing to say. And as for self consistency having to be natural, I agree, but if you’re aware that you’re being inconsistent, you can still alter your actions to try and correct for that fact.
… Oh.
Hm. In that case, I think I’m still missing something fundamental.
I care about self-consistency because an inconsistent self is very strong evidence that I’m doing something wrong.
It’s not very likely that if I take the minimum steps to make the evidence of the error go away, I will make the error go away.
The general case of “find a self-inconsistency, make the minimum change to remove it” is not error-correcting.
I actually think that your internal dialogue was a pretty accurate representation of what I was failing to say. And as for self consistency having to be natural, I agree, but if you’re aware that you’re being inconsistent, you can still alter your actions to try and correct for that fact.