Why is cognitive effort experienced as costly?

This is significant, and I think ironic. I cringed when I read this as the conclusion to that massive military study.

This platform appeals to those who would have it the other way. Those who break the cognitive lazy barrier (like those who break the brute labor inhibitors) are empowered beyond the expectation and conclusions of all others. Those who would be dependent as opposed to those who would own their knowledge and experience internally.

Cognitive effort experienced as unpleasant?

For some I can only imagine sex is unpleasant.

News for you others, or maybe you all for it is not always true that we recognize in ourselves our most prominent qualities.

Without cognition of a thing, the nature or understanding of that thing cannot be one’s own. This applies to everything from your tools through society and civilization itself.

One can only be said to “have” knowledge and experience that one has put one’s self through. One can only be said to “own” that knowledge when one could convincingly recreate those product outcomes from basic essential forms.

Having our challenges accomplished for us is “pleasant” and arguably more “energy efficient”, yet diminish our capacity as competent actors on our own behalf.

I think everyone has experienced those moments when we realize others, fully formed self responsible adults, are by virtue of their technological crutch not fully formed or self responsible.

This cognitive inhibition is the root cause.

For 99.9% of human history (and probably for 90% of people living today) thinking hard without some pressing need was a Bad Idea. The world was pretty much steady-state. Your survival depended on the good will of your family and community. And there was little margin for error, if whatever clever idea you thought up went badly wrong.