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I guess Lukeprog also believes that Lukeprog exists, and that this element of his world view is also not contrarian. So what?
One thing I see repeatedly in others is a deep-rooted reluctance to view themselves as blobs of perfectly standard physical matter. One of the many ways this manifests itself is a failure to consider inferences about one's own mind as fundamentally similar to any other form of inference. There seems to be an assumption of some kind on non-inferable magic, when many people think about their own motivations. I'm sure you appreciate how fundamentally silly this is, but maybe you could take a little time to meditate on it some more.
Sorry if my tone is a little condescending, but understand that you have totally failed to support your initial claim that I was confused.
My theory is that the dualistic theory of mind is an artifact of the lossy compression algorithm which, conveniently, prevents introspection from turning into infinite recursion. Lack of neurosurgery in the environment of ancestral adaptation made that an acceptable compromise.
I quite like Bob Trivers' self-deception theory, though I only have tangential acquaintance with it. We might anticipate that self deception is harder if we are inclined to recognize the bit we call "me" as caused by some inner mechanism, hence it may be profitable to suppress that recognition, if Trivers is on to something.
Wild speculation on my part, of course. There may simply be no good reason, from the point of view of historic genetic fitness, to be good at self analysis, and you're quite possibly on to something, that the computational overhead just doesn't pay off.