Category: Human Behavior and Cognitive Science

—“I need to learn how you think.”—

I don’t feel when I think. I think with time, property, costs, and reserve sympathetic judgement until the end. It’s just like math in that regard.

Whenever I hear ‘feel good’ in an argument, I basically know someone is lying/making an err. So I solve the logic of incentives from A to B on that basis.

When there are no ‘feelings’ involved I know I have found the waypoints. Then I stand back and ask myself how I feel about it. Most people simply cannot develop the mental discipline to think inversely like that.

People are acquisition machines. Our feelings evolved encourage us to acquire. They evolved to reward us for thoughts of acquisition, acts of acquisition, acquisitions, and they evolved to punish us for losses and thoughts of losses. We merely make excuses along the way, because we need to negotiate with our ‘moral selves’ and negotiate with others.

And that is perhaps the best way to look at “The Systems”

System 0 – “acquire evaluation” (brainstem evaluation)

System 1 – “moral evaluation”

System 2 – “search” (memory of experiences)

System 3 – “negotiation” (what we call reason)

We just happen to be able to use our negotiation to reason – with enough practice to circumvent our moral evaluation.

reasoning evolved from negotiation I assume.

This explains (probably) the difference from male and female agency.