The Evolution of Self Awareness

When we're able to know what's important, then we can maybe get healing or move on from unhealthy ways of living or coping. In fact, if you dig into the neurobiological underpinnings of what is the self, like the self with the lowercase S, not the capital S Supreme self, it's a bundle of nerves and pathways. It's like an effort to predict what's going to happen in a way. Like there's this hierarchical predictive coding like that we wire and modify as we go due to the uncertainty that is not only uncomfortable, but it develops in part for our survival as a species.

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