Type theory for utility hypothesis: there are a certain distinct (small) number of pathways in the body that cause physical good feelings. Map those plus the location, duration, intensity, and frequency dimensions and you start to have comparability. This doesn’t solve the motivation/meaning structures built on top of those pathways which have more degrees of freedom, but it’s still a start. Also, those more complicated things built on top might just be scalar weightings and not change the dimensionality of the space.
Type theory for utility hypothesis: there are a certain distinct (small) number of pathways in the body that cause physical good feelings. Map those plus the location, duration, intensity, and frequency dimensions and you start to have comparability. This doesn’t solve the motivation/meaning structures built on top of those pathways which have more degrees of freedom, but it’s still a start. Also, those more complicated things built on top might just be scalar weightings and not change the dimensionality of the space.
Yeah, it seems like in practice humans should be a lot more comparable than theoretical agentic entities like I discuss in the post.