Fascinating. However, it appears that both that paper and the papers it’s critiquing are written by people who’ve utterly failed to understand it, in particular the insight that aggregate perceptions are measured over time… which means you can be positively motivated to achieve goals in order to maintain your high opinion of yourself—and still have it be driven by an error signal.
That is, the mere passage of time without further achievement will cause an increasing amount of “error” to be registered, without requiring any special action.
Both this paper and the paper it critiques got this basic understanding wrong, as far as I can tell. (It also doesn’t help that the authors of the paper you linked seem to think that materialistic reduction is a bad thing!)
Fascinating. However, it appears that both that paper and the papers it’s critiquing are written by people who’ve utterly failed to understand it, in particular the insight that aggregate perceptions are measured over time… which means you can be positively motivated to achieve goals in order to maintain your high opinion of yourself—and still have it be driven by an error signal.
That is, the mere passage of time without further achievement will cause an increasing amount of “error” to be registered, without requiring any special action.
Both this paper and the paper it critiques got this basic understanding wrong, as far as I can tell. (It also doesn’t help that the authors of the paper you linked seem to think that materialistic reduction is a bad thing!)