Is every intelligent species going to be technological? It depends how fast they get how smart. Are they first intelligent enough to want an easier and longer life? Or are they first intelligent enough to decide that they don't need that and change their internal rewards instead?
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Replying to @Plinz
Hmm, what makes u suspect changing our internal rewards will be that easy? (Not that I am confident it won’t be.)
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman
It is not trivial; evolution has put access protections in place. But many of the meditation experts of the eastern wireheading schools have figured it out, and either died equanimously under Bodhi trees or became serene monks.
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Replying to @Plinz
Seems plausible. But another possibility: mediation is just a good way to clarify our thoughts, so that we can better achieve happiness along the same lines, and constraints, evolution set out? See what I mean?
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman
Yes, I see, but both from the well documented reports of practitioners and some personal experience, it allows significant reorganization of cortical structure and interpretation of rewards. These monks burning themselves alive in protest were mostly fine with that pain.
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Replying to @Plinz
Hmm, and i sure it’s not just pursuing one evolved reward (legacy?) instead of another (pain avoidance?)?
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Btw, Bethany may possibly vouch for that, too :)
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Replying to @Plinz
(Yeah, she ascribes to the view u stated. At least tentatively. She and I have discussed this.)
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