I agree with you, both reason and intuition are being used and very useful in the decision-making of day-to-day life, where in a lot of cases it simply is not efficient to ‘compute’, making intuition more efficient and interaction between the two modes necessary, which blurs the line between the two sides.
However, I was intending this post to consider the sides specifically when it comes to non-routine matters such as thinking about ontology, metaphysics, or fundamental ethical/moral questions. (I see how I should have made this context more explicit) I think in that context, the sides do become more apparent and distinct.
In that sense, when I talk about the consistency of a system, I mean ‘a system’s ability to fully justify its own use’, for which ‘self-justifying’ might actually be a better term than consistency.
I think this also implies that once you’re beyond the ‘event horizon’ and fully committed to one system (while talking about fundamental, non-routine topics), you will not have any reason to leave it for the other one, even if confronted with the best self-justifying reasons of the other system!
It applies even more strongly to those topics—intuition is the root of truth for these things, and is the guide to what’s worth exploring rationally. In fact, it’s not clear how they are tied to reality in the first place, without intuition.
I agree with you, both reason and intuition are being used and very useful in the decision-making of day-to-day life, where in a lot of cases it simply is not efficient to ‘compute’, making intuition more efficient and interaction between the two modes necessary, which blurs the line between the two sides.
However, I was intending this post to consider the sides specifically when it comes to non-routine matters such as thinking about ontology, metaphysics, or fundamental ethical/moral questions. (I see how I should have made this context more explicit) I think in that context, the sides do become more apparent and distinct.
In that sense, when I talk about the consistency of a system, I mean ‘a system’s ability to fully justify its own use’, for which ‘self-justifying’ might actually be a better term than consistency.
I think this also implies that once you’re beyond the ‘event horizon’ and fully committed to one system (while talking about fundamental, non-routine topics), you will not have any reason to leave it for the other one, even if confronted with the best self-justifying reasons of the other system!
It applies even more strongly to those topics—intuition is the root of truth for these things, and is the guide to what’s worth exploring rationally. In fact, it’s not clear how they are tied to reality in the first place, without intuition.