Comment by Sharlin

I certainly agree with the point about post-hoc justifications – but isn't it amazing that it's also something very familiar to humans who do that all the time and manage to lie to ourselves about it very convincingly?! The more you read about neuropsychology the more you're forced to assume a view where the conscious self, whatever it is, has only a very tenuous grasp of what is going on and how much it actually has control over things.

In any case, you don't need accurate understanding of how your mind works (hello humans, again!) to be able to converge on

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when there's no other uniquely good local optimum in the search space.