This touches on an interesting issue for looking at human values. It seems we have systems inside of ourselves that are training what we feel as positive affect aka yumminess. It is classical conditioning. Pavlov’s dog probably feels positive affect in response to the bell in expectation of food. ( I think this was confirmed with studies of monkeys with bananas in boxes that beep. ) So then, which do we want to identify as our values? The things that currently feel yummy? Or the things the system within us is trying to train us to obtain?
This touches on an interesting issue for looking at human values. It seems we have systems inside of ourselves that are training what we feel as positive affect aka yumminess. It is classical conditioning. Pavlov’s dog probably feels positive affect in response to the bell in expectation of food. ( I think this was confirmed with studies of monkeys with bananas in boxes that beep. ) So then, which do we want to identify as our values? The things that currently feel yummy? Or the things the system within us is trying to train us to obtain?
Do you explore that idea in your linked post?