timtyler comments on To what degree do we have goals? - Less Wrong
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Uh huh. So: I care about my toenails less than my kidneys too. But the context from the post is whether people identify with anything other than their conscious mind - and the answer I was giving was of the form: yes, of course!!! Consciousness is like the PR department. If you think that is you then - in my book - you have made a basic and fundamental existential mistake.