Sorry, I was speaking ambiguously. I mean’t ‘rational’ not in the normative sense that distinguishes good agents from bad ones, but ‘rational’ in the broader, descriptive sense that distinguishes anything capable of responding to reasons (even terrible or false ones) from something that isn’t. I assumed that was the sense of ‘rational’ Prawn was using, but that may have been wrong.
“Rational” is broader than “human” and narrower than “physically possible”.
Do you really mean to say that there are physically possible minds that are not rational? In virtue of what are they ‘minds’ then?
Yes. There are irrational people, and they still have minds.
Ah, I think I just misunderstood which sense of ‘rational’ you intended.
Haven’t you met another human?
Sorry, I was speaking ambiguously. I mean’t ‘rational’ not in the normative sense that distinguishes good agents from bad ones, but ‘rational’ in the broader, descriptive sense that distinguishes anything capable of responding to reasons (even terrible or false ones) from something that isn’t. I assumed that was the sense of ‘rational’ Prawn was using, but that may have been wrong.