First of, how did I miss this? ;_;
QuoteHere's something to think about: you don't care about anybody else, yet you know that everyone else, for the most part, doesn't want you to press the button. You don't care about it, but you know it. Can you make a decision that overrides the decision of billions of others of your kind? Do you think that you are billions of times better than everyone else? Better enough to decide for them?
Well, as Blizz pointed out, If I don't care about what you said, it wouldn't make the slightest difference to me.
QuoteAnd yeah, not caring should ultimately result in not pressing the button because that already requires a certain degree of motivation. :S
Let's say hitting the button is an action. Now, when talking about actions, or more specifically choices, if one of them requires energy (or resources, like moving your hand to actually push the button), you will obviously
not push the button if you don't care. The question is, if both the choices require the same amount of energy or no amount of energy, what would you do?
There's something else I have to be clear about. When you say "care", at what level do you mean? I mean, breathing doesn't mean you particularly care for it. Of course, you care if you breathe or not, but not in everyday life. You just breathe, you don't even give a second's thought about it. What I'm saying is, are we assuming actions
need what you call "motivation"? Couldn't there be actions without any motivation whatsoever? I hope you know what I mean, my question the words motivation and care... are we talking about conscious or subconscious levels here? And if subconscious, are we talking about the most trivial stimuli (more mechanical, like brain telling the heart to beat) or are we talking about certain high level stimuli (you suffered childhood cause you're poor so you subconsciously act good to poor people without you knowing it)?