There is also a subtext which argues—that rationality only gives one (correct) answer even if we only can approximate it.
The map is not the territory. The territory is the breathtaking mishmash of probabilities and quantum states and who knows what that is the universe that we (kind of sorta) know and love. The map is the combined representation of all the evidence we have of how of the universe that we use to approximate our environment and navigate our world.
Each agent will have a different map of the universe and so may give a different answer to any particular question.
###Is it ‘Rational’ being Right or is it rational to using your available evidence the efficiently?
I would describe as “most rational” the agent who gives the answer that matches most closely the evidence that is available to him, as opposed to the agent that gives the best answer. I don’t have a word for what is to have a better answer to a question despite the fact that your royally f* up the thinking and really should have been even more ahead in accuracy than you were.
I don’t have a word for what is to have a better answer to a question despite the fact that your royally f* up the thinking and really should have been even more ahead in accuracy than you were.
###Does rationality only give one answer?
The map is not the territory. The territory is the breathtaking mishmash of probabilities and quantum states and who knows what that is the universe that we (kind of sorta) know and love. The map is the combined representation of all the evidence we have of how of the universe that we use to approximate our environment and navigate our world.
Each agent will have a different map of the universe and so may give a different answer to any particular question.
###Is it ‘Rational’ being Right or is it rational to using your available evidence the efficiently? I would describe as “most rational” the agent who gives the answer that matches most closely the evidence that is available to him, as opposed to the agent that gives the best answer. I don’t have a word for what is to have a better answer to a question despite the fact that your royally f* up the thinking and really should have been even more ahead in accuracy than you were.
(Epistemically) lucky.