So all of your actions in the present moment is guided towards your brothers happiness? I didn’t mean switching between goals as situations change, only one goal.
Lots of things make me happy, from new books to walks in the woods to eating a ripe pear to handing my brother an ice cream cone.
Sometimes trying to achieve the terminal goal involves trading off which things I like more against each other, or even doing something I don’t like in order to be able to do something I like a lot in the future. Sometimes it means trying new things in order to figure out if there’s anything I need to add to the list of things I like. Sometimes it means trying to improve my general ability to chart a path of actions that lead to me being happy.
One goal, that is arguably selfish but also includes others values as input, that gets followed regardless of the situation. Does that make more sense?
So all of your actions in the present moment is guided towards your brothers happiness? I didn’t mean switching between goals as situations change, only one goal.
My terminal goal is that I exist and be happy.
Lots of things make me happy, from new books to walks in the woods to eating a ripe pear to handing my brother an ice cream cone.
Sometimes trying to achieve the terminal goal involves trading off which things I like more against each other, or even doing something I don’t like in order to be able to do something I like a lot in the future. Sometimes it means trying new things in order to figure out if there’s anything I need to add to the list of things I like. Sometimes it means trying to improve my general ability to chart a path of actions that lead to me being happy.
One goal, that is arguably selfish but also includes others values as input, that gets followed regardless of the situation. Does that make more sense?