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Choosing what to want may be non-trivial in many contexts but I actually do this often. I often choose to want to do what I have to do and, given some effort, t
by qwerty456127 5y ago
Choosing what to want may be non-trivial in many contexts but I actually do this often. I often choose to want to do what I have to do and, given some effort, this switches me from feeling angry to feeling happy.
- manmal 5y agoYou have to ask yourself what makes you think about wanting something in that very moment. And whether any of the considerations you are weighing while thinking about this are actually created by you at will. You can go up one meta level: You can want what you want, but you can’t want to want what you want. There’s this theory among physicists (I don’t know how it’s called) that if you started the Big Bang again, under the same circumstances, that everything would happen again, in the exact same way.
- qwerty456127 5y ago> You can want what you want, but you can’t want to want what you want. This sounds false. "want to want what you want" sounds ambiguous. To me it can mean both the desire to be able to choose what to want (which is always true because it is kind of a developable superpower making you always satisfied) or "keep wanting what you already want" (which doesn't require any effort to change). > There’s this theory among physicists (I don’t know how it’s called) that if you started the Big Bang again, under the same circumstances, that everything would happen again, in the exact same way. This theory sounds intuitively obvious. But isn't there an opposite theory?