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            %SUBJECTIVE SELFISH DISINTEGRATION BIAS 870214

     The  danger of subjective states of consciousness  is
that since they are usually reflexive they  can be selfish
in disintegrative ways.

     Selfishness  is  a form of self  preservation  in  an
isolated competition to survive as an individual,   rather
than  survive  as  a  species.    The  selfish  person  is
attempting to achieve an  impossible  goal:   the isolated
personal achievement  of  individual  eternal significance
and/or  satisfaction,  or something much like that.   That
which the selfish person seeks can  be enjoyed only within
an integrated community.

     To avoid the disintegration of selfishness we need to
seek  to  promote  both personal and  communal  integrity.
Promoting  compulsive  objectivity  does not  promote  the
integration  of our understandings of our selves with  our
understandings  of our "objective"  environments.   To  be
compulsively objective is to disintegrate some connections
between us and others as objects.   Compulsive objectivity
is not the way to avoid the bias of selfishness.

     Selfishness is related to self-centeredness.   To the
selfish person all priorities are centered on the self and
self's welfare  seen  in a limited way,   seen  in a self-
centered way.  Questions of values, ideals, priorities are
judged in terms of self's desires,  fears, concerns,  etc.
The  selfish  person  does  not  live  according  to   any
transcendent ideals, but rather self-centeredly.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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