It sounds to me like EY is equating the second bullet with “perfect altruism is coherent, as is caring only about one’s self at the current moment, but nothing in between is.” To that, though, as Furcas says, one can be selfish according to similarity of pattern rather than ontologically privileged continuity.
Or one could be selfish according to a non-fundamental, ontologically reducible continuity. At least, I don’t see why not. Has anyone offered an argument for pattern over process?
It sounds to me like EY is equating the second bullet with “perfect altruism is coherent, as is caring only about one’s self at the current moment, but nothing in between is.” To that, though, as Furcas says, one can be selfish according to similarity of pattern rather than ontologically privileged continuity.
Or one could be selfish according to a non-fundamental, ontologically reducible continuity. At least, I don’t see why not. Has anyone offered an argument for pattern over process?
randallsquared has it dead right, I think.