From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 08:54:51 MDT
> gts writes
<quoting Lee>
>>> What people like Rafael
>>> and I *would* agree to is that he *is* choosing that action,
>>> and so hence on some scale it *is* the more satisfactory of
>>> his choices (and so then clearly *does* provide more satisfaction
>>> in a sense), but that I think this to be most unhelpful in trying
>>> to determine *why* he did it.
>>
>> Actually Rafael and I were pretty much in agreement on this idea that
>> altruistic acts are driven by a motivation for the reward
>> experience. It was Eliezer and you who suggested that people
>> sometimes act altruistically separately from the desire for the
>> rewarding experience that comes from helping others.
### I am sorry, gts, but it is not true that I agreed with you on the reward
experience as the motivation for altruism. As far as I recall, we discussed
the physical location of the experience of pleasure (and we disagreed on
that topic, too).
Rafal
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