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0030 In chapter nine, on evolution and human ethics, Domning envisions a short step from an amoral psychology (original selfishness) to a moral psychology associated with Original Sin (human selfishness).  All that is required is the evolution of creatures capable of self-reflection<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is that the same as the evolution of self?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, is that the evolution of cupid, the self in the presence of others?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uh oh, the term, “cupid”, now has a technical definition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0031 Is our capacity for self-reflection an adaptation into an ultimate niche<\/em> or is it an evolutionary spandrel, an architectural feature of adaptations into diverse proximate niches?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domning suggests the latter, by noting that intelligence is a composite of a wide variety of faculties, many of which are contradictory.  Trade-offs favor a psychological ambivalence, which looks more and more like free will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does this imply that human free will arises from a diversity of “original selfishnesses”,<\/em> each specific to a dilemma in the environment of evolutionary adaptation,<\/em> psychologically expressed as behaviors consistent with the emphatic, I-myself?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the “self” seems to be a spandrel, where all these architectural (and archetypal) psychologies come together to form something, that ends up labeled as “self”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0032 Remember this one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 09<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0033 Item A entails no moral deliberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Item D involves moral deliberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0034 Item B, the consolidation of psychological expressions of I-myself into a single entity,<\/em> the self, does not entail moral deliberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Item C, the tendency to put one’s own interests above other interests in the exercise of human free will,<\/em> implicates moral deliberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0035 Now, I would like to substitute my newly minted technical term,<\/em> “cupid” (B’), in for “self” (B) and see what happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0036 Right off, the nature of “cupid” as an adaptation<\/em> accounts for the spandrel-like “self”<\/em>.   Its niche<\/em> entails some sort of judgment (a triadic relation) in which the self is socially constructed out of a variety of psychological expressions of I-myself<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is the key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psychologically, self-interest<\/em> is composed in response to other selves<\/em>.  Cupid is the self becoming aware of its own self-interests<\/em> in a social world where others exhibit their own interests through psychological expressions of I-myself<\/em>.  In order to consolidate my self,<\/em> from my own expressions of I-myself,<\/em> I must consolidate the selves of others,<\/em> from their own expressions of I-myself.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In brief, the self (B) does not arise in a vacuum.  Cupid (B’) designates that fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

0030 In chapter nine, on evolution and human ethics, Domning envisions a short step from an amoral psychology (original selfishness) to a moral psychology associated with Original Sin (human selfishness).  All that is required is the evolution of creatures capable of self-reflection. Is that the same as the evolution of self? 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