I had pictured your “deliberative thinking” module as more of an “excuse generator”—the rest of your mind would make its decisions, and then the excuse generator comes up with an explanation for them.
I know this is a year or two late, but: I’ve noticed this and find it incredibly frustrating. Turning introspection (yes, I know) on my own internally-stated motivations more often than not reveals them to be either excuses or just plain bullshit. The most frequent failure mode is finding that I did , not because it was good, but because I wanted to be seen as the sort of person who would do it. Try though I might, it seems incredibly difficult to get my brain to not output Frankfurtian Bullshit.
I sort-of-intend to write a post about it one of these days.
I know this is a year or two late, but: I’ve noticed this and find it incredibly frustrating. Turning introspection (yes, I know) on my own internally-stated motivations more often than not reveals them to be either excuses or just plain bullshit. The most frequent failure mode is finding that I did , not because it was good, but because I wanted to be seen as the sort of person who would do it. Try though I might, it seems incredibly difficult to get my brain to not output Frankfurtian Bullshit.
I sort-of-intend to write a post about it one of these days.