Third recorded thought-stream on self

I do not suspect people will continue to believe it doesn't matter what you believe in because it will not affect their beliefs. If I did I would call myself a pessimist.

There will be people approaching death who will actively choose to ignore entire sets of notions due to the perception that even considering these notions would betray the foundations of their personal values. Most striking is that these notions, when fully considered, aid the individual in choosing efficient methodologies.

Our refusal to jettison these dysfunctional parts of self is testament to our psychological dependency on a static notion of self identity. Indeed, it is unlikely that any single preference is immune to the thought of another. This prompts me to search for a set of contexts in which a preference is unanimously accepted as optimal by every human being. One may approach the issue by differentiating preference with respect to essentiality. The categories of essential and nonessential preference hence arise naturally. These categories are overlapping sets.