Thank you very much for writing this up. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if akrasia has a neurological basis, and I'm a little surprised that I haven't seen any posts really looking at it from that angle. Dopamine?
And on the other hand, your story is also about ideas and circumstances that undercut motivation.
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. -- William Blake
I haven't read up on the akrasia discussions. I don't believe into intelligence. I believe in efficiency regarding goals stated in advance. It's all about what we want and how to achieve it. And what we want is merely 'the line of least resistance'.
Whatever intelligence is, it can't be intelligent all the way down. It's just dumb stuff at the bottom. -- Andy Clark
The universe really just exists. And it appears to us that it is unfolding because we are part of ...
We've had these for a year, I'm sure we all know what to do by now.
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