You&#x27;re missing the main thrust of the argument, I think (and this is maybe a little expected because the article kind of presupposes it).<p>Imagine a hippie concept such as &quot;you are effectively the same being as that guy over there, if either of you gets hurt, it&#x27;s isomorphic, it&#x27;s equally bad to the overall organism&quot;.<p>Now, imagine that this is <i>objectively true</i>, i.e. there is something in the basic laws of reality that, if you could observe it, would show the hippie idea to be obviously true.<p>Then perceiving this part of the laws of reality would be anti-fitness, so you would evolve to be blind to it.