Yes, I agree that these are important questions. I think I would break your question up into two:
Q: How can we find good questions to think about?
Q: When should we stop thinking about a question?
Now, I must confess, I’m a fan of the root question that I’ve already come up with. But after I think about it some, I begin to think it may make sense to ask multiple root questions, all of them fully general, and all referring to each other. The problem of rationality can be looked at in different ways, and I imagine these ways can complement each other.
NTS: the “apply a correction, test, repeat” algorithm may make a good root question.
Yes, I agree that these are important questions. I think I would break your question up into two:
Q: How can we find good questions to think about?
Q: When should we stop thinking about a question?
Now, I must confess, I’m a fan of the root question that I’ve already come up with. But after I think about it some, I begin to think it may make sense to ask multiple root questions, all of them fully general, and all referring to each other. The problem of rationality can be looked at in different ways, and I imagine these ways can complement each other.
NTS: the “apply a correction, test, repeat” algorithm may make a good root question.