Expectation

Expectation has the same origins as commitment, being intention. It can also come from "knowledge of". Both will be touched on in the following blog.

Likewise it can be classified using:
1) For self
2) For other
3) Of physical results

1) Intentions don't become a self-expectation till one agrees on intending specific consequences. Multiple intents as thoughts of decisions don't have to be expectations. For example: I can describe an intention but that doesn't mean you have to expect that decision of yourself or other. This means, like commitment, expectation exists from intention and has consistency dependent on conformity or rejection of the intention. The more conformity to intention, trust, acceptance of, place on the intention the more one expects self or other to manifest or act out the intention.

Expectations exist as a product of A) Repeated behaviors B) Expressed agreement to intend. C) Conclusions of self based on personal "thought as," or "for."

When B exists others expectations take on more validity and the more the more the will (Ex: I will do x definitively) imposed the stronger the expectation will tend to be.

It is useful to ask a person what they will do so as to expect based on expressed intention.

2) A) One might expect others as well as themselves to do a certain thing because of frequency of past behaviors. People are pronse to expect your personality and behaviors based on past experiences.

Non-routine expectations or as they are intentions, are possible applications. A person may even agree to a non-routine behavior. People might look forward to non-routine behaviors, as forms of art, or even breaks in frequent routine, as in vacation, as some examples.

3) Physical expectations are a product of:
A) Cause and effect laws, B) Concreteness C) In-group-similarity D) Frequency and repetition.

Errors can arise from D, in personal or social life. Example: "driver" (p) "uses clutch" (q). New car "without clutch" still may manifest the same habit. This phenomena is called latent inhibition, and may also be a form of bias (ex: I think person A, only dresses as x).

What is the difference between knowing and expectation? There is a simple difference, seen in the conflict of "is" and "will be." Direct experience as causing similarity between the properties of mind/world is "knowledge", where as prediction as thought is expectation. Ex: John sees that his friend is lifting weights, and knows this. He expects that he WILL be lifting weights on another time.

Questions that may come from this:
1) Why can habits be stronger than rational/beneficial behaviors/ends?
2) What is honesty?
3) What is routine?