Thank you for your interesting account.
I am very much a sympathiser of the theory/doctrine of inclusionality,
which I, personally, find very similar to Gibson's ecological psychology
(Gibson, 1950, 1966, 1979) and the idea of affordance, as well as to the
ideas of Benny Shanon (1993) within cognition. It makes a perfect sense
to me as rather an obvious thing, perhaps due to the fact that I am not a
biologist or a life scientist like yourself, but was, rather, 'polluted'
by psychology, social-constructionism, philosophy, the social sciences and
the humanities for several years.
I am very much intrigued by the possibility of making it a logic. I am
convinced it will make a major breakthrough in my work.
However, for my work, I perceive human existence and the human subject to
be indifferent to others, self-interest, self-constructing, self-defining,
lonely, personalised and personal, unique, self-protecting, ego-driven,
proud, competitive, constantly changing and modified (self-modified), as
well as emerging, whole, dynamic and being found and located within the
context of a [an ecological] world (or universe) consisting of space and
social others and many other objects and subjects (see Gibson, 1950, 1966,
1979) and Shanon (1993).
I consider each whole individual being in the world as endeavouring to
construct his/her own personal journey and [or] existence/life/living for
himself/herself within the world in accordance with his or her own
constructed personal values and objectives in pursuit for and using
his/her own personal/ised [constructed] version of ontological stability
and security, so-called identity and self and self-protection, sense-
making, happiness and pleasure and gratification, self-fulfillment and
meaning (namely, meaningful existence for himself or herself).
For my view of human existence (as relevant to my questions below) and a
brief summary of my work, I'd like to refer you to
<http://www.bath.ac.uk/%7Epspas/humaexist.htm>
<http://www.bath.ac.uk/~pspas/what.htm>
Here is my question.
I'd very like to know how you account for the characteristics of
indifference, self-interest, a man to a man a wolf, personalised
existence, egocentrism, being ego-driven, competitiveness and even
viciousness within the logic of inclusionality. I'd like to state here
that I, by no means, share Hobbes' philosophy of human nature and that I
understand that inclusinality, as you perceive it to be, does not turn
the 'I' into a 'we', but keeps the 'I' within the 'we'.
Looking forward to your reply and reminding you that I am not a biologist,
as are most other members of this forum/list.
With warmest regards,
Alon
<http://www.bath.ac.uk/~pspas/>
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