RE: If people were 100% rational, would the world be better?
July 12, 2021 at 9:45 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2021 at 9:46 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(July 10, 2021 at 11:07 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: What role does irrationality play in improving our lives?
I would say that irrationality is the bedrock of creativity and hypothesis generation. I don't mean hypotheses in the experimental deductive sense, but in the theoretical conjecture sense. New ideas are born by intentionally or unintentionally walking away from the rules of the game, and accepting the likelihood of being wrong.