this is why exerting willpower is often disadvantageous if not immoral
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hot take: the reason we don’t have much “willpower” is that willpower is the power to go against adapted instincts which is bad in EEAs
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This is kind of approximating Klages’ theory of will, replace “adapted instincts” with “vital/life intuition”pic.twitter.com/w1c4NDowPY
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is this metarationality
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Fits neatly with openness/intelligence correlation. I.e. intelligence as meta pattern matching to process change in patterns & openness as instinct suppression (esp. fear/disgust); co-evolved in environments w/ high rate of change, trading off efficiency for flexibility.
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Yes. Willpower is the conscious mind taking over. That's why I've said, if we want to know whether other species of animals are conscious like we are, look at whether they commit suicide.
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Armillaria ostoyae is the most advanced species in existence
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Instincts respond to patterns traced by willpower. Willpower origin is just as unknown as conscience is. Instincts may be casted to betray us as well.
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