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Exploring the Minimal Self: Narcissism, Politics, and Our Collective Psyche With Elijah Emery

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The Problem With Norbert Wiener's Theory of the Self

The self is a false refocation of an improperly delimited part of this much larger field of interlocking processes linear purpose of thinking, or is the interconnectedness characteristic of complex cybernetically integrated systems. And I think people forget that ecology branched off from cybernetics but don't tell them. The idea of survival either in ethics or an evolution is not the organism or the species but the entire environment which the organ is in the pits. It exaggerates the importance of conscious control as we're flirting towards the proper relations between thought and feeling upside down, and thus replaces the end with the ego. This is in base in basins view is a product of almost totally distorted

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