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quote: Fransisco Verella

• Evolution has designed you so that you just want to hurry on with your solidified self. They is what the sense of being a separate organism is about.

date: 1999

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• Verella claims evolution has designed us to have no self awareness of no-self, the origins of the self.
• even this phrase seems like an oxymoron 'self awareness of no-self!'

• how would a less complex, more primitive life form even have self awareness? What does that mean biologically? At that most rudimentary level, I suppose it would mean sensory feedback signals,

• Does this imply that (emotionally or affectively) awakening to your origins of self leads to second guessing ourselves as well? From observation of the behaviour of awakened individuals, this does not seem to be the case. Rather, authentically awakens individuals appear to be associated with much higher levels of wisdom and compassion, which would seem to confer evolutionary fitness

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adjacency between

• evolution
• non-self
• Francisco Verella

• Verella makes the interesting claim that evolution designer is to be blind to our lack of self
• in fact, major evolutionary transitions in individuality embed the creation of a new higher order individual at each major stage of transition.
• More fundamentally, major evolutionary transitions to individuals at each level need to define a biological self through a new physiological boundary between what constitutes a new unitary individual "self" (our inner world) and the rest of the environment ( our new outer world)
• It will be interesting to see how Verella's claim reconcile with that