His concern for suffering obviously springs from his own inner experience. Once you realize the nature of suffering and change how it is implemented in your mind, the nature of your concern with suffering will change, and his apparently has not.
There is lots of stuff on quantifying the value of information, but I don't know a book that would translate these concepts into psychology. I am pretty sure that the Buddhist practitioners must have figured it out and wrote it down somewhere.
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*smiles* So no math yet :)
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Russel/Norvig has a section on computing the value of information, but I don't know if it scales up to the algorithm of optimal recursive distribution of computational resources for optimizing the control architecture that maximizes the global rewards.
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