I think we agree that motivations need to ground out directly or indirectly with “primary rewards” from innate drives (pain is bad, eating-when-hungry is good, etc., other things equal). (Right?)
And then your comment kinda sounds like you’re making the following argument:
There’s no need to posit the existence of an innate drive / primary reward that ever makes it intrinsically rewarding to be nice to people, because “you get positive feedback from being nice to people”, i.e. you will notice from experience that “being nice to people” will tend to lead to (non-social) primary rewards like eating-when-hungry, avoiding pain, etc., so the learning algorithm in your brain will sculpt you to have good feelings around being nice to people.
If that’s what you’re trying to say, then I strongly disagree and I’m happy to chat about that … but I was under quite a strong impression that that’s not what you believe! Right?
I thought that you believed that there is a primary reward / innate drive that makes it feel intrinsically rewarding for adults to be nice (under certain circumstances); if so, why bring up childhood at all?
I’m not too sure what you’re arguing.
I think we agree that motivations need to ground out directly or indirectly with “primary rewards” from innate drives (pain is bad, eating-when-hungry is good, etc., other things equal). (Right?)
And then your comment kinda sounds like you’re making the following argument:
If that’s what you’re trying to say, then I strongly disagree and I’m happy to chat about that … but I was under quite a strong impression that that’s not what you believe! Right?
I thought that you believed that there is a primary reward / innate drive that makes it feel intrinsically rewarding for adults to be nice (under certain circumstances); if so, why bring up childhood at all?
Sorry if I’m confused :)