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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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quote: Fransisco Verella

• In some sense, a heightened degree of self-awareness is anti evolutionary