Civilization chronicles: ego as system engine—a philosophical reinterpretation of human history
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications April 1, 2026 Dion Satrio Nugroho
Egoic dynamics have shaped human cognition, social structures, and technological systems for tens of thousands of years, yet their historical continuity remains theoretically underdeveloped. This paper reconstructs a genealogy of egoic development from early survival logics to its contemporary algorithmic forms. Drawing on active inference accounts of self maintenance, developmental psychology,...