(August 13, 2014 at 5:48 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: As far as your use of rational, I think the difficulty I'm having with it is that it is a personal faculty, being applied to an impersonal phenomenon. I'm not sure, but I'm thinking that you perhaps mean "comprehensible"? Correct me if I'm wrong. I certainly think that the Universe is comprehensible, that it follows an internally logical set of behaviors that we humans call "laws".This is pretty much where I would go with this.
To use a real world example, some people consider time moving at different rates, within our own universe, to be 'irrational'.
The problem with that is that, either it does or it doesn't. The universe doesn't care what we think is rational, it is what it is and does what it does. If we learn that it's doing something we consider 'irrational', then it is our responsibility to reconsider what we think is 'rational', not the universe's responsibility to adjust what it does.
