Selfish self absorption

Subject: Selfish self absorption.

It arguable that much of what we call intelligence and reasoning, things which we applaud the mind for and elevate the mind to distinguish ourselves from animals is nothing more than a computable process. 
Ethics and morality are set pieces in our evolutionary story distinguishing us from other primates. We assume that as mental processes they came into being as thought which we defined and developed into a code of conduct based on principles which set us apart as intelligent beings.
But what if this were not true, what if these fine lauded first principles of social cohesion were nothing more than, an observation of what worked, a mechanistic evaluation of what is good for us. If this is true and we are nothing more than a computerised observation platform, sifting through the incoming material that our senses provide, recognising what know and remember, trashing much of what is new as unknown and therefore irrelevant. That cognisance, awareness, perception are nothing more than the mechanistic operations of the brain and the elevation to mind status is flawed. Perhaps all our romance with the uniqueness of the mind and its position somewhere outside of our brain is also flawed. 
Perhaps we are nothing more than the sum of our observations and even our thoughts which seek answers outside the realm of our perceived world are but the variations  of the 'what if' question, no more rational than the thoughts which formed the basis of early man's thinking, or the religious thinking of two thousand years ago. 
Perhaps the idea of intelligence and education which is supposed to form the basis for our uniqueness is nothing more than an internal device for checking what we perceive to be useful and are main claim to uniqueness is our selfish self absorption.