RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
August 13, 2021 at 3:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2021 at 3:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I probably just don’t see things the same way. I might notice that a fear of divine retribution is more compelling to some people than a rational treatise on ethical behavior, for example. That a person could try and live their life by the latter set and fail whereas that same person might have or may succeed by the former.
This fact (or example of a possible fact) doesn’t strike me as absurd. Rather, it seems like something a behavioral scientist is more than willing to educate us on.
We’re not absurd. We’re biological. Seeing things that way is probably why my first thoughts on the mattered concerned phenomenology and homeostasis. My willingness to grant rational causes and processes for life broadly or human behavior specifically a function of seeing us as cognitive systems seeking value fields.
This fact (or example of a possible fact) doesn’t strike me as absurd. Rather, it seems like something a behavioral scientist is more than willing to educate us on.
We’re not absurd. We’re biological. Seeing things that way is probably why my first thoughts on the mattered concerned phenomenology and homeostasis. My willingness to grant rational causes and processes for life broadly or human behavior specifically a function of seeing us as cognitive systems seeking value fields.
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