“Only people with mistaken ideas about “rationality” will find themselves believing that “irrationality” will help.”
Because of computational restrictions, humans can easily maintain two mutually-contradictory beliefs, as long as those beliefs are never allowed to interact with each other or their necessary consequences.
Imagine a person that had the goal of avoiding the necessity of recognizing that two of their beliefs were incompatible. This goal cannot be explicitly stated, because if the person recognizes that they’re avoiding the realization, they’d automatically failed. They MUST behave irrationally in order to meet their goal. The sub-module of their mind directly connected with this goal is behaving rationally in drawing the rest of the mind into delusion and madness, because that’s the only way the goal can be met, but the whole mind can only be described as acting contrary to reason.
I can recognize this truth, that the goal in question can only be reached through irrational thinking. It’s an insane, irrational goal, and only an irrational person would desire it.
Only a person with mistaken ideas about ‘rationality’ would make the claim you just did. Rationality is not compatible with all possible goals, and irrationality is a necessary precondition for some goals to be met. Your denial of this reality is… irrational.
Because of computational restrictions, humans can easily maintain two mutually-contradictory beliefs, as long as those beliefs are never allowed to interact with each other or their necessary consequences.
Imagine a person that had the goal of avoiding the necessity of recognizing that two of their beliefs were incompatible. This goal cannot be explicitly stated, because if the person recognizes that they’re avoiding the realization, they’d automatically failed. They MUST behave irrationally in order to meet their goal. The sub-module of their mind directly connected with this goal is behaving rationally in drawing the rest of the mind into delusion and madness, because that’s the only way the goal can be met, but the whole mind can only be described as acting contrary to reason.
I can recognize this truth, that the goal in question can only be reached through irrational thinking. It’s an insane, irrational goal, and only an irrational person would desire it.
Only a person with mistaken ideas about ‘rationality’ would make the claim you just did. Rationality is not compatible with all possible goals, and irrationality is a necessary precondition for some goals to be met. Your denial of this reality is… irrational.