Either your brain discovers a "non-happiness" way to motivate itself toward new goals, which would end up a less effective proxy for happiness, or you lose your ability to have goals altogether, in which case I think you literally do nothing at all?
i don’t think your conscious suffering or lack thereof is inside the operant conditioning loop
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I keep going back and forth in trying to respond. I feel like developing from avoiding pain into avoiding situations that cause pain into weighing complicated predictions about situations to minimize pain is what consciousness IS (along with the positive complement).
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So your statement is definitely true at the start, when our starter pack of instincts is learning from the most basic kinds of suffering, but maybe not true once we can attend to much more complicated probabilistic (conscious) suffering?
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