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gav (npub1w4j…cead) ☃️merry chrimist☃️ (npub1pt6…6mf6) 🌲Fæġer Mæġden🌲 (npub1g0u…3vfw) Guy Incognito (npub1pz6…7c8z)
> for how many days is it rational to believe
that's the trouble. you aren't analyzing the currently available information and coming to a conclusion. there's no belief to be had. there's just a response to a stimulus. no thought. no rationality
the mechanics of conditioning itself can be advantageous to an organism at the population level. so in that sense if we were designing a system from scratch and we added a conditioning mechanism that could well be a rational decision to make. but the mechanism itself, when in action in the wild, does not involve rational thought
so a given occurrence of a phobia can never be rational, but the presence of the underlying mechanism might be a net benefit to your well being when considered over your entire lifetime. this can also separately be assessed at the population level. further, at any given point in time the occurrence of a particular phobia in an individual could be judged as a net benefit (ex spiders in australia) or a net negative
> for how many days is it rational to believe
that's the trouble. you aren't analyzing the currently available information and coming to a conclusion. there's no belief to be had. there's just a response to a stimulus. no thought. no rationality
the mechanics of conditioning itself can be advantageous to an organism at the population level. so in that sense if we were designing a system from scratch and we added a conditioning mechanism that could well be a rational decision to make. but the mechanism itself, when in action in the wild, does not involve rational thought
so a given occurrence of a phobia can never be rational, but the presence of the underlying mechanism might be a net benefit to your well being when considered over your entire lifetime. this can also separately be assessed at the population level. further, at any given point in time the occurrence of a particular phobia in an individual could be judged as a net benefit (ex spiders in australia) or a net negative