Long story short, I can make better decisions if I can produce an effective mapping for an economy where the quality of choice of making a purchase is identical to its price. ROUGHLY. The idea is that, instead of talking, your thoughts _buy_ things, and the price of the things results in what thoughts you have. Supply and demand. So, how do you decide what prices to sell your thoughts and behavior for, so that you do what you want?
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[confusion ensues] uhh i was just thinking of spamming on how to price choices so as to make good ones
Maybe it's a fun idea. I am doing other things at the moment. _What choices are best_? Considering the domain of choices. I mean, actually, ideally if currency is exchanged for decision making, the currency might represent the value of the choices, I suppose? and then the people _holding_ the currency would be the choices themselves; and as information is updated, money would change hands. maybe?
Okay so let's say our goal is to not-die. And we have a really enticing bar of sugar on a deadly trap that kills everyone who touches it and also we have a healthy place to exercise. Say we were deciding between exercising, or picking up the bar of sugar.
In the brain, money might be kind of like blood. When a part of the brain is getting used, blood goes there and gives it energy. This is called the haemodynamic response: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemodynamic_response . Something I know little about, but depend on highly. Neurons are dependent on the direction of blood flow, to have energy.
[of course, each neuron can influence that flow, based on what it does and being part of the larger brain. usually i expect most neurons to do whatever they evolved to do in my brain, rather than manipulating me to gain blood flow; although, I imagine in mental health disorders, that that situation could possibly change.]
[still, each neuron needs enough blood flow in order to do whatever it evolved to do. so, a market for blood would inevitably arise.]
I don't usually think of instinctive behaviors as "markets". I pretty much assume that I've evolved to handle my various different states of existence (such as oxygen depletion or injury in the brain) in various different instinctive ways.
Buuuut I was exposed to something really intense, and now part of me thinks this way!
How much does it cost to open a door? Or stop someone from standing up? What does it mean, in a brain, to ask this?
I think it's interpreting my decision making process as bargaining. For example, I have something akin to a decision tree around opening a door. I might open a door for various reasons, and interestingly I have some dissociated bits I use to figure out how to meet tasks without revealing it to myself when dissociated. For example, one way to open a door is to go to the bathroom. The capitalist neurons might hold a desire to open a door, and engage that process with bargaining. The money, then, is the knowledge about decision making parts.
this is probably just trauma around being mind controlled by something with strong financial motives
anyway, it overlaps with my interest in finding ways to make decisions when completely out of my mind how would one label choices with the value in accepting them, in a way that numerically sorts according to their actual priority?
and, that would actually help me engage that capitalist bit of me that tries to buy behaviors
- eat sugar and die - exercise there are parts to these. sugar: feels good, short term energy, accumulates ability to resist starvation, strong decision-making influence (addictive) die: indicates failure exercise: short term negative decision influence, long term positive decision influence. increases long term survivability and physical success. short term can make one exhausted and poorly functioning. does not provide an addictive reward. (trees not presently drawn) three really big points of interest: - short term vs long term. each impact can happen soon or later, quickly or after a lot of repetition - addictive reward. the presence and quality of this can motive a lot of neurons. - decision influence. when something is easy or hard to do again, and whether or not we have been exposed to that, can seem a huge factor in a handful of different ways. notably, there are different kinds of decision influence; the kinds seem to have their own neurons, but these groups also seem to overlap.
i seem to have an experience where many of my neuron groups can motivate individually often at the behest of other, motivating neuron groups, valuing the result of that situation. it's very hard to put the concept of "in that scenario we'd die" properly with the "sugar is yummy" neurons. something else steps in and we get bargaining. the price of eating sugar in the context of immediately dieing from it rises exponentially, in order to completely prevent the death. this could be difficult for sugar neurons.
so a model of a dissociated priority list might then cast each item as backed by a customer base that wants to purchase it thinking on that, i'm not sure i like the economic model of decision making.
more consciously, if i were to be very simple and compare eating sugar and dieing with a context informing on that, i'm basically expressing to the sugar-eating neurons, that, in the situations it causes us to die, the reason to never eat sugar then, is because of that situation. that's a more realistic and accurate depiction of the "price" of "eating sugar when it kills you" being exponentially proportional to the likelihood of choosing to do so.
so there's an enforcement of logical common sense. when i'm confused and dissociated, often I have experiences where what I do is radically different from my preferences, almost counterposed. in that situation, maybe i could consider the "price" of things to help me comprehend that, or convey it to my weird experiences. for example, right now i might price debugging my little fourier hobby very low, and could price adding on to this spam thread higher. [did not meet goal of describing a formula for part of a priority list]
{ when doing that, we enter a situation where different parts of the mind engage differently. it's more than a single choice. there are many parts. i'm sitting at the fourier thing, but not making progres yet. }
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