Exoskeleton of Instrumental Reasons

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A metaphor that human psychology, like an insect's hard exoskeleton holding its squishy parts together, is held in shape by a structure of instrumental reasons accumulated over evolutionary history; removing them risks leaving humans as 'amorphous blobs' without shape.

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