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StephenBuckley  ·  4434 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Metacognitive Ordeal

I don't think that as it is this is an answerable question. Thinking "for its own sake" implies that it cannot influence something other than itself, when obviously it influences the thinker at the very least. There has been a reasonable amount of debate over centuries as to whether anything can be done for its own sake, or if the reward at the heart of it just becomes more obfuscated.