People have near-unlimited wants, which are not neatly priority ordered, as they come from different brain modules. Wants are NOT isomorphic to happiness. One or several brain modules are devoted to ethics, and like all other monkeybrain activity, there's an underlying substrate (which appears to have ~6 base components) and cultural imposition onto the substrate. Your wealth is basically a measure of how much of scarce needs you (or the folks who left you an inheritance) have supplied. Wealth + Autonomy = Wants satisfaction. More specifically, wealth and autonomy are necessary prerequisites to exit, which is the ONLY thing that even resembles a guarantee of good behavior on the part of a 2-party agreement.
Evil = doing stuff that directly hurts folks, prevents autonomy or prevents folks from getting richer.
Government = primarily an institution which hurts folks in order to prevent poor folks autonomy and prevent folks from getting richer, all in order to benefit rich folks status.
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What does exactly a brain module mean?
Is it a physical sub-part of brain?
And that to self-contained and relatively autonomous to deserve the name "module".
Best model of the human mind that I have is that there are dozens of semi-independent modules, with a front end (consciousness) that seems (by introspection) to have control, but in reality mostly justifies, ex-post-facto, the weighted average of the modules' preferences.
Physical sub-parts? Somewhat. Visual cortex is an areal in the brain. I'd argue that one could probably locate status-building in several locations in the brain in the next 50 years.
Is it brain module or mind module?
It is confusing if these words are used interchangeably.
I prefer the medieval model which speaks of faculties of mind. See The Discarded Image by CS Lewis
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