DaFranker comments on The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DaFranker 19 September 2012 08:49:11PM 1 point [-]

Freedom is never a terminal value. If you dig a bit, you should be able to explain why freedom is important/essential in particular circumstances.

Ironically, the appearance of freedom can be a default terminal value for humans and some other animals, if you take evolutionary psychology seriously. Or, to be more accurate, the appearance of absence of imposed restrictions can be a default terminal value that receives positive reinforcement cookies in the brain of humans and some other animals. Claustrophobia seems to be a particular subset of this that automates the jump from certain types of restrictions through the whole mental process that leads to panic-mode.

The abstract concept of freedom and its reality referent pattern, however, would be extremely unlikely to end up as a terminal value, if only even for its sheer mathematical complexity.

Comment author: shminux 19 September 2012 08:57:20PM 0 points [-]

I agree with this.