Oof, realizing it’s genuinely difficult to know whether a desire is terminal or instrumental.
Me; “hey subconscious is this a terminal desire or is there a situation change that would make this stimulus nonthreatening to me. Like, why do we want to avoid this thing, is it intrinsically bad, or are there contingent reasons?”
The subconscous: <hiding the reasons, which are fixable insecurities> “don’t worry about it.”
Oof, realizing it’s genuinely difficult to know whether a desire is terminal or instrumental.
Me; “hey subconscious is this a terminal desire or is there a situation change that would make this stimulus nonthreatening to me. Like, why do we want to avoid this thing, is it intrinsically bad, or are there contingent reasons?”
The subconscous: <hiding the reasons, which are fixable insecurities> “don’t worry about it.”