I’ve been reading lesswrong on and off for about 7 years (hpmor is great). I realized today that I’ve never had Agency (My life has been a haphazard mess, but I’m lucky to be in an okay place). It’s funny to see this question pop up today of all days.
A guess to an answer to your question: They’d need to realize that intelligence is a thing, they’d need to see from outside of themselves that the brain is this thing that thinks and does and is weird. Theeeen they would need some values or goals to pursue. Values like “self improvement” and goals like “I want to be able to afford the best food in the world 24/7″
I spent a lot of time trying to integrate “anatomy trains” and various other resources on posture and muscular/skeletal alignment, but nothing has been easier or more applicable than this post. Thank you leggi.
I agree that this sort of alignment has far greater impact on the mind and its well being than most (even those suffering from Firbo and similar) will admit.
I’ll be sharing this with friends and am eager to see how they respond.