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Selfishness

25 May, 2022

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The default mode network in the brain is apparently that which runs when you're not actively doing anything, thinking about anything, suppressing your desire to do anything, and you're just ... being.
Generalize that to the default mode behavior of a human, and what kind of taxonomies could you do? Consider some axis of selfish vs. selfless. For the vast majority of humans their DMB is selfishness, with nary a concern for others.
Whatever they do or say, there's usually some narrow scope of needs they're trying to meet, and the particular thing about those needs is that it is always *theirs* and no one else's.
People do this subconsciously, unconsciously, and consciously; call this id, ego, superego if you'd like; we'll summarize with F.
The most benign acts and speech can be broken down by the above two axes, and in so doing we find a density plot almost entirely massed in the [F, Selfish] quadrant. What a picture of humanity that paints. How dull and predictable.

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