RE: Is it rational to maximize rationality?
July 7, 2015 at 4:50 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2015 at 4:52 pm by Panglossian.
Edit Reason: lack of the word "certain" was bugging me
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I'm relatively certain there isn't a yes or no answer; the mere nature of the question immediately makes you rationalise your thoughts on the matter, and it's rather difficult to stay objective about such things without removing yourself from them, as objectivity and rationalism are inherently intertwined with one another. It feels vaguely paradoxical, and a little bit like being rudely awoken and desperately trying to remember what Mila Kunis was doing to you while you were asleep - you know there's an answer in there somewhere, lost down the back of the proverbial sofa cushion.
I feel like if I try to think about this for too long, fetid grey matter is going to start dribbling out of my ears, so in conclusion, the only "rational" course left open is to succumb to madness and escape this vortex of logic.
There. As time increases, the likelihood of absolute logic giving rise to absolute chaos approaches infinity, which is why computers can't handle paradoxes and that it is rational to be irrational... sometimes.
I feel like if I try to think about this for too long, fetid grey matter is going to start dribbling out of my ears, so in conclusion, the only "rational" course left open is to succumb to madness and escape this vortex of logic.
There. As time increases, the likelihood of absolute logic giving rise to absolute chaos approaches infinity, which is why computers can't handle paradoxes and that it is rational to be irrational... sometimes.
