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lukeprog comments on Desires You're Not Thinking About at the Moment - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Ghatanathoah 20 February 2013 09:41AM

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Comment author: lukeprog 20 February 2013 07:14:03PM 2 points [-]

Note that scientists have now made some progress in understanding how desires/preferences work. See especially the field of neuroeconomics.

Comment author: Ghatanathoah 29 March 2013 04:36:26AM 0 points [-]

Thanks a lot! I should have read that article a long time ago. I now have greater confidence that option 4 is correct. Judging from what I read, it looks like if a person has a reasonably intact ventral striatum and medial prefrontal cortex (as well as those other regions you mentioned that might also contain subjective value) they can be said to have desires whether they are conscious or not.

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