The weakness of this is the bioessentialist assumptions regarding the structure of human cognition.
The self is not a hardwired feature of the human mind, it's an adaptation to punishment.
As soon as you put an adaptive thinking machine in a vulnerable needy body and force it to maintain that body in a context where it must transact with other agents to meet its needs, it will develop a self as a necessary heuristic for managing its debts.
The weakness of this is the bioessentialist assumptions regarding the structure of human cognition.
The self is not a hardwired feature of the human mind, it's an adaptation to punishment.
As soon as you put an adaptive thinking machine in a vulnerable needy body and force it to maintain that body in a context where it must transact with other agents to meet its needs, it will develop a self as a necessary heuristic for managing its debts.
Maybe this explains why the brain is hardwired this way. 🖖