Wired For Culture: Origins Of The Human Social Mind - Plot & Excerpts
But those chapters ignored an opportunity that lurks in the background of our cooperative societies. That opportunity is to manipulate them to serve us just that little bit better than average, to somehow get a bit more than our share of the spoils. How have our minds been structured to do this, especially as other minds will be trying do the same as ours? Before we can begin to answer these questions, we need to confront the greatest mystery of our minds, and that is consciousness itself and just who or what is in charge of it. For most of us, our day-to-day existence is taken for granted and led by an actor we know well. The actor is us, the “I” that is doing the speaking when we say, “I did this,” or, “I did that,” the “me” that we see when we peer inside our minds, and the “you” that is reading this text. If you are like most people, your connection to your inner self is so intimate that it defines you—you cannot imagine yourself as someone else, and you never go away (even though sometimes you might wish you did), except perhaps when you are asleep.
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