I conceive of the body as hardware and the mind as software and I fully acknowledge the limitations of that paradigm. People used to think the brain was micro-clockwork because that was the cutting edge of computronium back in the day
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Confusing functions that have a healthy general result with explicitly selfish motives leaves one unable to understand *both* biological functions *and* the complex nature of self-conscious self-interest
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How an agent solves the paradoxes of bounded rationality should generally be understood as optimizations, the perfection of the bounded principle, not their betrayal (so unbounded rationality is not consistently rational, but wholly irrational; and so on for other ideals)
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(a lemma; to distinguish predispositions from one another you first need to distinguish b/w selection pressures that favor different strategies)
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this saves you from thinking eg the integrity-strategy is “really” hypocritical (muddled, blurry) b/c the hypocrisy-strategy gives you a conceptual counterpoint
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