Akrasia

Notes

When someone acts against his better judgement, i.e lack Self-control is the capacity to regulate behavior against impulses. It is also often called the Insight Gap, when we know what is true/what we need to do, but fail to do so.

Knowing is not enough, there is something that holds us back even though we want do Examine your desires not just your actions. This perhaps demonstrate the difference between making a decisions in a real life, vs philosophical experiments where we debate what we would have done behind the Design society as if you don't know your place in it.

This suggests that our behavior is more than just the result of our logical thinking. Considering the power of Emotional hijacking is uncontrolled System 1 dominance over reasoning, there are many cases where we can end up doing things we eventually We regret inaction more than action taken. This can be the result of We prefer immediate benefits over delayed ones, when we "surrender" to our short term Temptations that are hurtful in the long run, and fail to provide meaningful happiness.

That suggests that at least on some level we have an intrapersonal conflict, that two or more voices within ourselves are not in agreement.