[Martin Taylor 971124 10:30]
As I understand an "incentive," it is a change in an environmental
feedback function set up by one person and made known to another. What
the other does about it depends entirely on whether the perceptions
affected by actions through the changed function are controlled or
not, and whether the changed environmental feedback function provides
a path that gives better control of those perceptions without also
introducing conflict with respect to other controlled perceptions.
If someone offers me an incentive of a million dollars to kill you, I
would do it if it didn't thereby introduce horrible conflicts with other
perceptions, such as, to name one, self-image as a law-abiding
nice guy. I have a lot of controlled perceptions for which the control
would be a lot easier if I had a million dollars:-)
Martin