evolution of dualism

The sense of self is an emergent phenomenon of evolution. By creating the a dualistic perspective between sense of self and the rest of reality it enables life forms of higher complexity, with better chances to survive.

E: A dog, fights to survive, and it cares for its puppies. It can do that because there is boundaries for what to care or not, the sense of self, an ego.

Then humans come along with their conceptualization capacities. Now at this sense of self, we give it a name (“I”) and we construct all language around it. Is such a powerful construct that humans are dependent on it for survival. We no longer conceive ourselves without it, and the dynamics of our culture just reenforces it all the time…

The dualistic nature of our experience is not only reflected around the sense of self but also around the discretization of our understanding of reality. A lot of our experience of reality is not through pure perception but through conceptualization of our environment into objects (conceptual abstraction).

Language discretness or any form of thought that uses conceptual abstraction reenforces the dualistic/discrete view of reality.