Comment on Fighting Akrasia: Finding the Source

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:27:03 GMT

My pet hypothesis is that akrasia was adaptive for ancestors who did not want to waste too many resources on an idea that may or may not work. Overall, it seems better to continually "refresh" your list of goals, and sometimes the future refresh is not as rationally calibrated or clashes with the former or future refresh states.

How do we test it? Gee. You've got me. I'm posting this because I hope a person more creative than me might have an idea.

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