It’s an evolved predisposition, but does that make it a terminal value? We like sweet foods, but a world that had no sweet foods because we’d figured out something else that tasted better doesn’t sound half bad! We have an evolved predisposition to sleep, but if we learned how to eliminate the need for sleep, wouldn’t that be even better?
Yes. I wouldn’t be surprised if this happened in fact.
Incest aversion seems to be an evolved predisposition, perhaps a “terminal value” akin to a preference for sweet foods...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect
It’s an evolved predisposition, but does that make it a terminal value? We like sweet foods, but a world that had no sweet foods because we’d figured out something else that tasted better doesn’t sound half bad! We have an evolved predisposition to sleep, but if we learned how to eliminate the need for sleep, wouldn’t that be even better?