06-09-2022, 01:39 PM
(06-09-2022, 12:50 PM)xsampa Wrote: What behavioral incentives (or social norms, if they are social) will post-human species have?
In some works of science fiction, the distant descendants of humans becoming post-sapient animals, notably Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos that are entirely instinctual because human-style brains are a large energetic investment. Notably Watt's Blindsight argues that consciousness is unnecessary for intelligence and that humans may be evolving towards being p-zombies. Outside of these cases, posthumans are seen as having a wide variety of behavioral norms due to the pressures of a different environment (in space, uploaded etc.) and different societies to begin with.
apparently a million different incentives and social norms.
the society and culture pages might help give ideas
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-topic/45b177d3ef3b1
They'll still need food, and usually water of some kind, or some kind of nutrition, a drive to survive, and at least on some kind of population level, a drive to reproduce even if it's in a very controlled way. The pursuit of happiness/ transcendent States/ pleasure/ entertainment, and more would probably continue to be drives
Others might re-engineer their minds with psychoware to become utterly fascinated with drives we might find more alien, like being obsessed with the fluid dynamics of water (for example). Or their primary motives might be centered around contemplating various abstractions in virtual spaces that would be outside of human comprehension. Or something else.
starting with the construction of vots early in the timeline, and most explorations of the toposophic landscape since then, would probably explore every possible variant of how to motivate a mind.
this is just a start to the possibilities.