Why Everyone Else Is A Hypocrite Evolution And The Modular Mind
by Robert Kurzban · first published 2012
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People actually suck at (a) knowing when they are being an asshole, and (b) not interpreting anything that doesn't benefit them as hostile to them. @see Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind, by Kurzban. https://www.amazon.com/Why-Everyone-Else-Hypocrite-Evolution...
on “Our “No Asshole” Rule (2014)” ↗…hardware and software" both in your brain and your gut that is less "you" (for that definition/understanding of "you"). I can recommend a pop-sci overview of some of these ideas in a book by R. Kurzban "Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind" - there's a bunch of speculation, and we don't have a consensus on many (most) consciousness-related things, but it raises some interesting ideas that seem reasonable from that perspective.
on “Your brain runs your body using something like a budget” ↗