But fear of death does seem like a kind of value systematization
I don’t think it’s system 1 doing the systemization. Evolution beat fear of death into us in lots of independent forms (fear of heights, snakes, thirst, suffocation, etc.), but for the same underlying reason. Fear of death is not just an abstraction humans invented or acquired in childhood; is a “natural idea” pointed at by our brain’s innate circuitry from many directions. Utilitarianism doesn’t come with that scaffolding. We don’t learn to systematize Euclidian and Minkowskian spaces the same way either.
I don’t think it’s system 1 doing the systemization. Evolution beat fear of death into us in lots of independent forms (fear of heights, snakes, thirst, suffocation, etc.), but for the same underlying reason. Fear of death is not just an abstraction humans invented or acquired in childhood; is a “natural idea” pointed at by our brain’s innate circuitry from many directions. Utilitarianism doesn’t come with that scaffolding. We don’t learn to systematize Euclidian and Minkowskian spaces the same way either.