Post AreNQQSWNVDOaaygb2 by 8757d9c788ddfa02b91056961aa1bced110fa7bd1716af2540c7d013aad337e5@mostr.pub
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 (DIR) Post #AreNQQSWNVDOaaygb2 by 8757d9c788ddfa02b91056961aa1bced110fa7bd1716af2540c7d013aad337e5@mostr.pub
       2025-03-02T16:35:00.000Z
       
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       Beliefs don't actually matter at all for anything. Only doing things matters.
       
 (DIR) Post #AreNQRENVZUoz1MuBs by nicholas@aklp.club
       2025-03-02T16:54:55.841306Z
       
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       Beliefs are a predicate to doing things, was the point. Not a sufficient condition, true; but a necessary one nonetheless.
       
 (DIR) Post #AreRG1uBDJF3MEDHNo by 8757d9c788ddfa02b91056961aa1bced110fa7bd1716af2540c7d013aad337e5@mostr.pub
       2025-03-02T17:01:27.000Z
       
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       They actually aren't. Abstractions are handled by a completely separate part of the brain and you can do whatever you want without even approaching a conscious belief.
       
 (DIR) Post #AreRG2zBCCpqi1Ymoa by nicholas@aklp.club
       2025-03-02T17:37:56.117368Z
       
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       you can do whatever you want without even approaching a conscious beliefBut how do you determine what you want to do?In order to act, you must first be able to evaluate which action is preferred in any given moment. That implies you have:A worldview through which you perceive the likely outcomes of your possible actions. AndAn underlying value set through which you parse the relative desirability of those outcomes.Yes, these evaluations can happen at the 'gut', or subconscious level, but your ​beliefs will shape both your worldview​​ and values nonetheless.
       
 (DIR) Post #AreaiR4C9kwj5fW96u by 8757d9c788ddfa02b91056961aa1bced110fa7bd1716af2540c7d013aad337e5@mostr.pub
       2025-03-02T17:57:40.000Z
       
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       You can insist the classical model all you want but the neurochemistry doesn't bear this out. Your desires come before your ideas, your worldview doesn't even exist in the right half of your brain, which is what's responsible for carrying out actions, and we know from strokes and lobotomies that the right brain isn't relying on the left for this.Worldviews, theories, ideas, only occur along language, which is a part of your brain that is extremely bad at handling anything in the real world. It can only understand rigid predefined categories, and not how they interplay with each other.A worldview only matters for things like engineering, cooperation in large groups, etc. but it has very little to do with what you want, or getting it in any direct way.Fun thing to know, in lobotomy patients, if you show them an image through their right eye (linked to the left brain, worldviews) then have them draw that image, then ask them why they drew it, they will make up a fictional story about why they drew it without even attempting to access a memory, which they do have.Your worldview isnt even connected to reality in that way. Most of it is a lie you make up ad hoc without even realizing its not true
       
 (DIR) Post #AreaiSbYRDDzrQ8IkK by nicholas@aklp.club
       2025-03-02T19:23:56.155969Z
       
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       Citing the behavior of people with brain damage to explain normal human behavior is certainly an interesting approach. Sure, for people with brain damage, I'll grant you perhaps they are not rational actors.But for the rest of us we have decades of high-power behavioral economics studies to prove people (by and large) respond to incentives. Which means they are acting praxiologically, not just doing random things willy-nilly all the time and then post-hoc rationalizing them.