I don’t think it is very simplistic what you said. Replace individuals with systems of purpose. Individuals are rarely only identified with their organism, but with principles that organize their foodchain (metaphorically and practically, in an evolutionary context).
It’s an amazing feat that the organism can corrupt the fine computational processes of our mind enough to make them identify with things.
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fine computational processes? you must be jesting. natural selection has only permitted to exist what furthers. no identification with things (like babies or other people) means extinction. it's existentially useful. is it good or bad though? not going there :D
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If you go there you may discover that it is completely mutable and how you can rewrite yourself. That’s why I think it is highly relevant to think it through. We are the first species that can acquire the cognitive tools to reprogram itself.
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