It seems to me to jive with how many people react to unexpected tensions between different parts of their values (eg Global warming vs markets solve everything, or Global warming vs nuclear power is bad). If the tension can’t be ignored or justified away, they often seem to base their new decision on affect and social factors, far more than any principled meta-preference for how to resolve tensions.
But you can still keep asking the “why” question and go back dozens of layers, usually suffering combinatorial explosion of causes, and even recursion in some cases. Only very, very rarely have I ever encountered a terminal, genesis cause for which there isn’t a “why”—the will to live is honestly the only one occurring to me right now. Everything else has causes upon causes as far as I’d care to look...
Okay well that doesn’t jive with my own introspective experience.
It seems to me to jive with how many people react to unexpected tensions between different parts of their values (eg Global warming vs markets solve everything, or Global warming vs nuclear power is bad). If the tension can’t be ignored or justified away, they often seem to base their new decision on affect and social factors, far more than any principled meta-preference for how to resolve tensions.
But you can still keep asking the “why” question and go back dozens of layers, usually suffering combinatorial explosion of causes, and even recursion in some cases. Only very, very rarely have I ever encountered a terminal, genesis cause for which there isn’t a “why”—the will to live is honestly the only one occurring to me right now. Everything else has causes upon causes as far as I’d care to look...
Oh, in that sense, yeah. I meant as in having articulated meta-preferences that explain lower level preferences.