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Interestingly, I think there used to be a group of people who nominally were dedicated to doing the kind of desire-inferring with an aim at concrete progress and conceptual understanding that I can cheer for, though they didn't have all that fancy neuroscience knowledge back then. Fun quiz: can you guess which field I'm referring to? I gave you some hints. And... here is the answer I had in mind. (Check this wiki article for the context, though.) Was that your guess? If not, what was?
I thought you may have been talking about the Epicureans.
Yeah, they were actually the second group that came to mind in roughly that memespace, but it seems to me what they didn't have was very clear reflection on how they got their goals and how that is relevant. I think that might have been hard to explain or examine without the idea of evolution.