Then the goal of lesswrong (in this framework) seems to make brain act like it contains command and control center which corrects for errors caused by another parts of brain. And the list of errors includes the idea that brain contains command and control center. Sophisticated.
Hm, yes. The brain is like an egalitarian cooperative, some of whose members are literate. We want the cooperative to write down goals and policies in a guiding document (or several documents, in several languages), which the literate members can consult and use to guide their behavior and the behavior of their peers.
Careful, you’re merging two different metaphors from the article. As you point out, the brain does not have a central module that is in control of all the others. But the brain does have a large collection semi-distinct modules, many of which appear to have significant control over various other modules.
So yeah, to become more rational, you’re adjusting some parts of your brain’s modules to compensate for and/or override some of the lousy data coming out of other modules. But that doesn’t make the adjusted modules take command over the non-adjusted ones; a sense of irrational fear of spiders might come from your hindbrain and be adjusted by your forebrain, but that doesn’t mean that your forebrain is also taking over or overriding the hindbrain’s job of noticing when you’ve stubbed your toe.
Then the goal of lesswrong (in this framework) seems to make brain act like it contains command and control center which corrects for errors caused by another parts of brain. And the list of errors includes the idea that brain contains command and control center. Sophisticated.
Hm, yes. The brain is like an egalitarian cooperative, some of whose members are literate. We want the cooperative to write down goals and policies in a guiding document (or several documents, in several languages), which the literate members can consult and use to guide their behavior and the behavior of their peers.
Careful, you’re merging two different metaphors from the article. As you point out, the brain does not have a central module that is in control of all the others. But the brain does have a large collection semi-distinct modules, many of which appear to have significant control over various other modules.
So yeah, to become more rational, you’re adjusting some parts of your brain’s modules to compensate for and/or override some of the lousy data coming out of other modules. But that doesn’t make the adjusted modules take command over the non-adjusted ones; a sense of irrational fear of spiders might come from your hindbrain and be adjusted by your forebrain, but that doesn’t mean that your forebrain is also taking over or overriding the hindbrain’s job of noticing when you’ve stubbed your toe.