(August 30, 2019 at 8:15 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Very few people hold beliefs they believe to be irrational. You can perhaps view the brain as a reason-seeking organ; if it does anything it is because it has conceived, computed, or confabulated a reason to do so. Beliefs, therefore, will always be rational to the person that holds them, and perhaps irrational to the one that does not.
What you describe is internal whims asserted to be rationality. But that is not rationality. Rationality is the subordination, not free expression, of internal whims. This is why real rationality follows a set of external rules validated in a manner that controls and eliminates as appropriate the effect of internal whims.
