Yeah, it makes a lot of sense to me that explicit cognition can interfere with the underlying, more “automatic” conditioning. Narrative framing and preforming intentions and focusing attention on the link between X and Y seem to have a strong influence on how conditioning does or doesn’t work, and I don’t know what the mechanisms are.
That being said, I think we agree that, in situations where there’s not a lot of conscious attention on what’s happening, the conditioning proceeds something like “normally,” where “normal” is “comparable to what happens in less sapient animals”?
Yeah, it makes a lot of sense to me that explicit cognition can interfere with the underlying, more “automatic” conditioning. Narrative framing and preforming intentions and focusing attention on the link between X and Y seem to have a strong influence on how conditioning does or doesn’t work, and I don’t know what the mechanisms are.
That being said, I think we agree that, in situations where there’s not a lot of conscious attention on what’s happening, the conditioning proceeds something like “normally,” where “normal” is “comparable to what happens in less sapient animals”?
I couldn’t dig up the original study from my phone but I found this, which references it: https://www.cogneurosociety.org/series1predictionreward/