Do human beings have a built-in tendency to be "self-ish"? Not selfish in the usual sense, but rather does baseline brain activity default to self-related processing — egocentrism — when we are in repose? If so, what is the brain mechanism for this, and what are the implications?
It stands to reason that brains should be selfish. From a basic evolutionary sense, the individual's first order of business under ordinary circumstances is to preserve the individual. Of course, part of this self-preservation involves attending to others, a need which typically subserves individual survival. Imagine a child so preoccupied with her
parents that she sets aside her own basic developmental needs. That's an evolutionary dead end.
:eggplant we're about to eat, send nudie closeups 
of body parts to impress acquaintances, and snap pictures of the Grand Canyon walls as it flashes 
past on our plunges to the bottom.
but then realized self-empowered women have no need of external (g)ratification.
I filled it with plants that have now grown a lot, in just a few months. So, I need to move some of them and cut others back as it's getting a little crowded. (The mint is trying take over.) The green peppers are ripening nicely and I've already used some of the chives, oregano and rosemary. We are moving into winter here and the amount of direct sun gets less and less every day. There won't be enough sun for anything much now until spring. But yes, I'm sooo loving this teeny garden. 
interpreters, 'cause it sets Gail off. 
