The Hierarchical Preservation Model of Decision-Making: Self-Relevance Encoding across Survival, Meaning, and Lineage–Collective Preservation

Key Points

• The aim is to explore how decision-making is influenced by self-relevance across different preservation layers.
• The theoretical framework analyzes decision-making through a hierarchical preservation model.
• Self-relevance encoding is linked to survival, meaning, and collective preservation.
• Cultural factors affecting self-continuity and self-loss are discussed.
• Irrationality arises from the reweighting or collapse of preservation hierarchy layers.
• Biological aspects are tied to decision-making processes regarding limitation and viability.
• Cultural influences modulate how self-relevant information is encoded.