I think there’s also a capability component, distinct from “understanding/modeling the world”, about self-alignment or self-control—the ability to speak or act in accordance with good judgement, even when that conflicts with short-term drives.
In my ontology I guess this is about the heuristics which are actually invoked to decide what to do given a clash between abstract understanding of what would be good and short-term drives (i.e. it’s part of meta-level judgement). But I agree that there’s something helpful about having terminology to point to that part in particular. Maybe we could say that self-alignment and self-control are strategies for acting according to one’s better judgement?
In my ontology I guess this is about the heuristics which are actually invoked to decide what to do given a clash between abstract understanding of what would be good and short-term drives (i.e. it’s part of meta-level judgement). But I agree that there’s something helpful about having terminology to point to that part in particular. Maybe we could say that self-alignment and self-control are strategies for acting according to one’s better judgement?