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To be sure, "general" laws apply to everything. But, for that very reason, they can rarely explain anything in particular.

In physics, we're used to explanations in terms of perhaps a dozen basic principles. For psychology, our expla- nations will have to combine hundreds of smaller theories. To physicists, that number may seem too large. To humanists, it may seem too small

It's mainly when our other systems start to fail that we engage the special agencies involved with what we call "consciousness." Accordingly, we're more aware of simple processes that don't work well than of complex ones that work fawlessly. This means that we cannot trust our offhand judgments about which of the things we do are simple, and which require complicated machinery

But if you're not a machine, what makes you an authority on what it feels like to be a machine?

The Principle of Noncompromise: The longer an internal conflict persists among an agent's subordinates, the weaker becomes that agent's status among its own competitors. lf such internal problems aren't settled soon, other agents will take control and the agents formerly involved wiII be "dismissed."

hierarchies do not always work. Consider that when two agents need to use each other's skills, then neither one can be "on top. "

Destructive acts can serve constructive goals by leaving fewer problems to be solved

Instead of asking, "What are Selves?" we can ask, instead , "What are our ideas about Selyes?"-and then we can ask,"What psychological functions do those ideas serve?"

perhaps it's because there are no persons in our heads to make us do the things ws want -nor even ones to make us want to want-that we construct the myth that we're inside ourselves

One function of the SeIf is to keep us from changing too rapidly

it is not enough simply to instruct an agency to start to carry out our plans. We also have to find some ways to constrain the changes we might later make-to prevent ourselves from turning those plan-agents off again! If we changed our minds too recklessly, we could never know what we might want next. We'd never get much done because we could never depend on ourselves

directness in control is too dangerous. If self-control were easy to obtain, we'd end up accomplishing nothing at all, e. g. we would die if work could switch off sleep or hunger.

the schemes we use to influence ourselves don't seem to differ much from those we use to exploit other people-and, similarly, they often fail

I suspect that, in order to commit ourselves to our largest, most ambitious plans, we learn to exploit agencies that operate on larger spans oftime. Which are our slowest-changing agencies of all? Later we'll see that these must include the silent, hidden agencies that shape what we call character. These are the systems that are concerned not merely with the things we want , but with what we want ourselves to be-that is, the ideals we set for ourselves