Lesson 20: The Agent and the Self-Model

Someone in the meeting says something you believe is wrong, and everyone is letting it slide. One part of your mind asks what the best move is: who's in the room, what's at stake. Another part asks something else entirely: what would the person I think I am do? Lesson 20: The Agent and the Self-Model separates the agent that makes decisions from the self-model, the set of conceptual models the agent keeps about who it is. It shows how the self-model adds a stance to each preference, turns those stances into identity, and gives the agent a compass for what someone like me does in a situation like this. It also explains how the self gets built: not by finding out who we really were all along, but by becoming, a bit at a time, the person we model ourselves to be. 🎧 Apple Podcasts or Spotify — search The Functional Mind 📖 thefunctionalmind.substack.com Music by Brylie Christopher – full credits: Solo Brylie Christopher - Solo - Free Music Archive This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thefunctionalmind.substack.com