No, sorry, that’s not what I meant. It’s more like—previously, I must have been implicitly thinking of “rationality” as being about verbal intellectual discourse, like the sort of thing we do here. Whereas now it’s as if I’m finally starting to glimpse this idea of probability and decision theory as constraints on coherent behavior, with speaking and writing merely being particular types of human behavior that happen to be particularly salient to us, even though the real world is made out of simpler parts that we don’t usually think about.
No, sorry, that’s not what I meant. It’s more like—previously, I must have been implicitly thinking of “rationality” as being about verbal intellectual discourse, like the sort of thing we do here. Whereas now it’s as if I’m finally starting to glimpse this idea of probability and decision theory as constraints on coherent behavior, with speaking and writing merely being particular types of human behavior that happen to be particularly salient to us, even though the real world is made out of simpler parts that we don’t usually think about.