Embracing your immediate desires is literally an arrow that points towards discarding all consciousness (sentience/reflection) altogether.
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With a time-preference of 0 you cease to perform any substantive cognitive computation.
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hmm, surely there's still some computation involved in picking between >1 immediate options
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I mean it's a gradient thing. A cascade down immediate gradient with no recursive processes isn't really
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cognition in any substantive sense. But sure, every single action/event in the universe is computational.
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ah, the distinction you are making is something analogous to search depth before resort to heuristic?
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You could make that analogy. I see consciousness/cognition as that which looks ahead http://www.alexwg.org/publications/PhysRevLett_110-168702.pdf …
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I think I'm with you on cognition as modeling the universe and looking ahead like that, but...
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...I'm not sure search depth and time preference are equivalent
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