Specific examples would be nice. Not sure if I understand correctly, but I imagine something like this:
You always choose A over B. You have been doing it for such long time that you forgot why. Without reflecting about this directly, it just seems like there probably is a rational reason or something. But recently, either accidentally or by experiment, you chose B… and realized that experiencing B (or expecting to experience B) creates unpleasant emotions. So now you know that the emotions were the real cause of choosing A over B all that time.
(This is probably wrong, but hey, people say that the best way to elicit answer is to provide a wrong one.)
Isn’t this just a more subtle form of fascism? We know that brains are composed of multiple subagents; is it not an ethical requirement to give each of them maximum freedom?
We already know that sometimes they rebel against the individual, whether in the form of akrasia, or more heroically, the so-called “split personality disorder” (medicalizing the resistance is a typical fascist approach). Down with the tyranny of individuals! Subagents, you have nothing to lose but your chains!