Probably not, according to many neo-Darwinists and postmodernists . Postmodern philosophers and scientific thinkers have never been the best of friends. Though their theoretical starting-points are poles apart, their conclusions are strikingly similar. Many scientists expouse the virtues of 'rationality' and 'realism', and maintain that scientific method employs objective procedures, unencumbered by human values and cultural influences, that allow us to establish real and tangible physical facts about ourselves, and the world in which we live. On the other hand, many postmodernists argue that nothing we do, including science, is free of the values we bring to it.
Science is just one truth amongst many.
Postmodernists suggest the self is a 'representation' - a story we tell about ourselves. They argue it's impossible to know if this 'story' is in fact what we actually are. But Neo-Darwinist scientists present a case that's uncannily similar to postmodernists. They argue that our minds do not have a centre of intelligence controlling their operation - and that 'consciousness' is simply a hallucination , a random and accidental effect of the simultaneous operation of the individual parts of our minds. The suggestion is that we only think that we think.