Why are people lazy?

what computation are you performing when you dream, when you make love or when you write poetry? these involve the soul, not just mechanical +, -, *, /, etc

This is not true if you're dreaming about your tax returns, fucking someone close to your state's age of consent, or composing another sonnet for a Curta calculator.

you can dream about your tax returns without dreaming of performing the computations necessary to calculate anything related to your taxes

you can dream about the abstract concept of tax and its moral ramifications

As says, it's advantageous to expend the minimal amount of energy when you're not actively foraging or hunting or running for your life. Other organisms display similar behaviour too - birds (I think the study was on pidgeons or finches or something) after being fed will prefer to just sit around and not do anything until they become hungry again rather than going out and finding more food sources in the mean time. Likewise, most animals will spend as much time as they can afford not doing anything or expending as little energy as they can.

Lethargy is also a response to minor injuries, infections, emotional traumas (your friend getting eaten by a sabre tooth tiger) and perceived long-term negative environmental conditions (there are sabre tooth tigers everywhere) because it keeps you sat in one place while you recover or wait out whatever the problem is.

soul is just the factors, you are still computing interactions between them.

Laziness is uniquely a function of economic status, and nothing more.

It is a proven fact that the less money a person has, the lazier he is.

>le soul

DUDE DUALITY LMAO

Please go back to . This is a science board not a philosophy board. And no serious philosopher agrees that souls exist. They don't. All of our subjective experiences are merely consequences of physical processes in our brains.

Genes. I had a shit upbringing and I'm not fat and have a daily routine of excercise, diet, and keeping up with things in general. Thank the universe for my genes. Although my parents are lazy pricks? Maybe I'm adopted

laziness and low ambition or procrastination is a deadly combination. But ITT: talking pure laziness, nothing else

They say lazy people make the best computer programmers.
That's because laziness is about using logic to complete a task with the least effort possible, which is a key aspect of programing. That same lazy logic helps us find the most efficient way of doing things in real life also. For instance, when hunting for food, why spend all day hunting 1 fish at a time when you can build a fish trap out of rocks and spend all day doing nothing.

I think laziness is mainly a lack of urgency. I mean if someone offered you a million if you clean up your room wouldn't you do it? Lazy people lack this inner urgency. Someone who from a young age is told how important good grades in school are will dedicate a lot of his time to studying. Someone with lax parents and with no inner motivation will do the minimum work and play video games all day. Willpower is negligible here I think. The idea to be lazy doesn't even enter the mind of a hard working person.