It seems to me that integrity of thought is actually quite a lot easier if it constrains the kind of anticipations that authentically and intuitively affect actions. Actions can still diverge from beliefs if someone with integrity of thought gets distracted enough to drop into a stereotyped habit (e.g. if I’m a bit checked out while driving and end up at a location I’m used to going to instead of the one I need to be at) or is motivated to deceive (e.g. corvids that think carefully about how to hide their food from other corvids).
The kind of belief-action split we’re used to seeing, I think, involves a school-broken sort of “believing” that’s integrated with the structures that are needed to give coherent answers on tests, but severed from thinking about one’s actual environment and interests.
The most important thing I did for my health in the last few years was healing this split.
It seems to me that integrity of thought is actually quite a lot easier if it constrains the kind of anticipations that authentically and intuitively affect actions. Actions can still diverge from beliefs if someone with integrity of thought gets distracted enough to drop into a stereotyped habit (e.g. if I’m a bit checked out while driving and end up at a location I’m used to going to instead of the one I need to be at) or is motivated to deceive (e.g. corvids that think carefully about how to hide their food from other corvids).
The kind of belief-action split we’re used to seeing, I think, involves a school-broken sort of “believing” that’s integrated with the structures that are needed to give coherent answers on tests, but severed from thinking about one’s actual environment and interests.
The most important thing I did for my health in the last few years was healing this split.