No, we really don’t agree. The existing body of cognitive psychology knowledge contains, implicit in it, an outline theory of how motivation works. That theory (be it ever so implicit) is already a whole world better than Powers’ theory, because the latter is so totally arbitrary and inconsistent with the cognitive pscyhology body of knowledge.
(You will ask why: because the latter does not rely on simple control parameters that act like homunculi. But this is a subtle point. Too complex to handle in this context).
No, we really don’t agree. The existing body of cognitive psychology knowledge contains, implicit in it, an outline theory of how motivation works. That theory (be it ever so implicit) is already a whole world better than Powers’ theory, because the latter is so totally arbitrary and inconsistent with the cognitive pscyhology body of knowledge.
(You will ask why: because the latter does not rely on simple control parameters that act like homunculi. But this is a subtle point. Too complex to handle in this context).