(Which may lead to interesting consequences when we eventually fully grasp ourselves.)
This is an important insight. The psychological effects of full self-understanding could be extremely distressing for the human concerned, especially as we tend to reserve moral status to “agents” rather than “machines”. In fact, I suspect that a large component of the depression I have been going through since really grasping the concept of “cognitive bias” is because my mind has started to classify itself as “mechanical” rather than “animate”.
This is an important insight. The psychological effects of full self-understanding could be extremely distressing for the human concerned, especially as we tend to reserve moral status to “agents” rather than “machines”. In fact, I suspect that a large component of the depression I have been going through since really grasping the concept of “cognitive bias” is because my mind has started to classify itself as “mechanical” rather than “animate”.