<p>We're self-obsessed, preoccupied with what effort we should be making.  We rarely get around to the questions behind our obsessions: What is a self? What is effort? This is the first in a series that presents a new scientific approach to those big questions as proposed by Berkeley scientist Terry Deacon.</p>

We're self-obsessed, preoccupied with what effort we should be making. We rarely get around to the questions behind our obsessions: What is a self? What is effort? This is the first in a series that presents a new scientific approach to those big questions as proposed by Berkeley scientist Terry Deacon.

<p>We're self-obsessed, preoccupied with what effort we should be making.&nbsp; We rarely get around to the questions behind our obsessions: What is a self? What is effort? This is the first in a series that presents a new scientific approach to those big questions as proposed by Berkeley scientist Terry Deacon.</p>

5. What are you anyway? Part 1

Self-debating about who we are, how we got this way, how to make better decisions and feel better about the decisions we make. 

A long-view perspective from an origins-of-life/state-of-the-world social-science researcher. 

Cradle to grave: From life's cradle to our grave situation.

"Mind candy for people who aren't afraid to think"
Kaja Perina (editor in chief, Psychology Today).

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Self-debating about who we are, how we got this way, how to make better decisions and feel better about the decisions we make. A long-view perspective from an origins-of-life/state-of-the-world social-science researcher. Cradle to grave: From life's cradle to our grave situation. "Mind candy for people who aren't afraid to think" Kaja Perina (editor in chief, Psychology Today).

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