The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 26 of 254
Living as an ego theorist despite neuroscience
Broks says that, despite his intellectual convictions, he lives as a ‘soul theorist’ or ‘ego theorist’ who persists with the belief in a fixed core of self. ‘I think we probably all do, because that’s the way we’ve evolved biologically and sociologically to think and behave. Neuroscience is chipping and will chip away at the cherished ideas that go with that, like the idea that we’re autonomous agents with free will and moral choice. But it won’t stop us living by them and it probably shouldn’t.’