The ego is just a placeholder we use to describe the primary "machinic" processes that produce consciousness in the brain. What the "ego" constituted by these processes wants or “ cares" about is no more inherently significant than e.g. the arrangement of carbon atoms in a rock.
Denying the above claim involves the denial of materialism. The physical processes in your brain are more fundamentally real than the secondary processes they create. There is no "soul" that survives the dissolution of its physical basis.
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This is incorrect. A software engineer who writes COBOL or C++ or Haskell does not "deny" materialism by abstracting away from the low-level hardware on which his code runs.
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A good opportunity for clarification: C++ doesn't exist for its own sake. It exists to manipulate hardware. Unfortunately, this useful abstraction invites misunderstanding by implying that hardware works like a programming language.
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Replace C++ with "the unitary 'I' " and hardware w/ "the brain"
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