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“...so conscious thought can be allocated elsewhere.” If at all. If you subscribe to thinking in identity-terms for optimization benefits, don’t you get a whol
by xtiansimon 5y ago
“...so conscious thought can be allocated elsewhere.”
If at all. If you subscribe to thinking in identity-terms for optimization benefits, don’t you get a whole host of other heuristics and shortcuts to ‘conscious thought’?
For one thing, ‘uncertainty’ can be reduced. It’s this or that. And politically, you can turn uncertainty into us/them.
- xtiansimon 5y agoAdd, “curiosity”. That gets in the way of automated/automatic thinking. Always eat the same foods, because what if you don’t like the food you buy/served? Then you go hungry (the classic mother, eat the food I make you or go hungry). Or, you waste other resources. Automatically you get many other rules and reasoning, If the food you eat doesn’t upset your stomach, don’t change—-what more do you need? Why change, it’s all going to the same place in the end. Unmoved and impenetrable to argument these shortcuts come with other formative logics.