Thanks for putting language to a vague feeling I've had wrt "causal intervention", I tend to think there's no such thing as self or self-preservation/fear-of-de

Thanks for putting language to a vague feeling I've had wrt "causal intervention", I tend to think there's no such thing as self or self-preservation/fear-of-death or desire-to-love that might facilitate actual agentic decision making without being embedded in a fight for survival against an adverserial environment. As far as embodiement and environment goes, does simulating an environment get us anywhere? Agents given avatars in games practice causal intervention, no? Is that too a matter of training a model in a rich enough, accurate enough simulation? I guess that's the problem self driving cars face, and they at least have a programmed-in-fear of mortality, tho not its own, in the form of avoiding a fatal wreck.