RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
August 8, 2021 at 12:42 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2021 at 12:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I like to joke that life is downright kantian with respect to life. A (perceived) categorical imperative. There aren't a whole lot of off switches in life, it's true - but we can grant that cognition is one of them, cant we? That suicidal ideations can and do lead to suicides. It's amusing to think about a crab contemplating life and then throwing itself off a cliff - for example. I think we can and do choose otherwise, but, again, these are often taken to be the effects of significant duress.
I'm using rational in a minimal sense. That to a creature like us, it's rational to select life's continuation, because that state of affairs or conclusion or the conclusion that we should follows from sound assertions genuinely apprehended by cognition.
I'm using rational in a minimal sense. That to a creature like us, it's rational to select life's continuation, because that state of affairs or conclusion or the conclusion that we should follows from sound assertions genuinely apprehended by cognition.
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