"we developed this ego a couple of hundred thousand years ago probably. And why did we develop the ego? It was probably useful when life was a
lot simpler: we were living in a cave or something, and we had
very simple communication. Out of that communication came language. Out of
language came this self-talking ability we have. It was probably useful when you and I were deciding who is going to
plant the seeds and who is going to plow the soil or who is going to go
out and kill the gazelle and who is going to take care of cooking it.
Very useful. But today, in today’s world things have really changed.
... 500 years ago we had 5,000 thoughts a
day, now we have 55,000 thoughts a day [Peter Baldwin told me]. It really has turned into an evolutionary disadvantage. I mean most
of our stress, our unhappiness, our anger, our fixation are driven by this
self-referential narrative. It is no longer useful and we're no longer
capable of handling it, with the very limited capacity we have of handling seven plus
or minus two things at a time in short term memory. We're no longer
capable of dealing with this incredibly complicated world (using self-talk)." Gary Weber
BG 260: Enlightenment is Capable of Endless Enlargement
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