A mock bill from the 2018/2019 Congressional Debate Legislation Packet. High School debaters participating Congressional Debate events write, introduce, debate, and then vote on these. I only judge and do not have any input otherwise. Most debate events require participants be prepared to argue either side of an issue. Congress does not. It is hard to have a debate in an "echo chamber", however, so in the interest of "having a good session" the more seasoned participants are often prepared to do so. Maybe y'all will enjoy debating some of these mock bills, maybe not. A Bill to Change the Legal Recognition of Adulthood to 21 BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT: Section 1. In the United States the legal recognition of Adulthood will be changed to 21 years of age. Section 2. Adulthood is defined as a person who has attained the age of majority; which is the legally defined age at which a person is considered an adult, with all the attendant rights and responsibilities of adulthood. Section 3. The State Department will handle all necessary changes to legal documents, laws, and responsibilities to oversee the changes created by this bill. Section 4. This bill will be implemented January 1st, 2021 Section 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Sponsor: Introduced for Congressional Debate by Nampa High School Be nice, have fun, and be cool.

@toby said in Humans are primarily driven by self-interest: Was hoping @jgill might pop in and enlighten us with a bit of game theory I'm not familiar with modern game theory, which has been extended to decision analysis and beyond. When Von Neumann and others introduced the subject, it relied heavily on fixed-point theory, specifically Brouwer's Fixed-point Theorem, which states that certain sets, no matter how they are shifted about retain a point that is fixed. If a function shifts the points about, then, provided the function is "continuous", there is a point that remains in the same position. From Wiki: Take an ordinary map of a country, and suppose that that map is laid out on a table inside that country. There will always be a "You are Here" point on the map which represents that same point in the country. My own investigations have included extending a similar classical result, the Banach Fixed-point Theorem, which tells one how to actually find this point, to a more general setting. As for the assertion in the title, you are moving into the territory of the old "What is Mind" thread from ST. How are decisions formed? How much of decision-making originates in the subconscious?