I think that the rejection of emotional reasoning is, in short, retarded. We aren’t computers. We’re smelly, sexual, squishy, awesomely alive and emotional humans. Logic is really useful, but it can be incredibly boring. What’s important is your relationships to your environment; that includes the people around you, nature, dogs, birds, ETC. Just as a person with really good ideas can be hard to get along with, a person with terrible ideas can be awesome company. What is more important? to me it’s obvious. BE NICE, not for any reason except that the highest power is LOVE. Trying to attach logical reasons for being nice is like attaching logical reasons to being angry: it works, but it’s pointless. When someone’s angry, they’re angry- reason can override emotions sometimes, but should it? Obviously when decisions need to get made, or we’re trying to figure out objective truth (whatever that means- you mean reality that exists outside of my experience of it? That happens?), reason should be accentuated. In personal relationships, emotionality deserves full respect. You have to avoid machine consciousness… Maybe you’re trying to program an AI, but are you trying to BECOME an AI?
You can have emotions while being rational, and you can be rational while having emotions. They are opposed sometimes, but they do not always have to be. But when there is a conflict between them, rationality (so long as you practice it properly) is more reliable in reaching correct, useful conclusions.
Unless you’re involved in an emotional relationship with someone… Yes, you could take the machine approach and go “your reaction is improper based on the stimulii” or you could take a more human approach and say “oh sorry I hurt your feelings” and maybe cry with them or something. Irrationality is allowed in human relationships.
You are not ready to participate in this forum, I’m afraid. If you’ve already read popularizations like “Irrationality”, “Predictably Irrational” or “Risk”, then start on the Sequences to understand what we discuss here.
I think that the rejection of emotional reasoning is, in short, retarded. We aren’t computers. We’re smelly, sexual, squishy, awesomely alive and emotional humans. Logic is really useful, but it can be incredibly boring. What’s important is your relationships to your environment; that includes the people around you, nature, dogs, birds, ETC. Just as a person with really good ideas can be hard to get along with, a person with terrible ideas can be awesome company. What is more important? to me it’s obvious. BE NICE, not for any reason except that the highest power is LOVE. Trying to attach logical reasons for being nice is like attaching logical reasons to being angry: it works, but it’s pointless. When someone’s angry, they’re angry- reason can override emotions sometimes, but should it? Obviously when decisions need to get made, or we’re trying to figure out objective truth (whatever that means- you mean reality that exists outside of my experience of it? That happens?), reason should be accentuated. In personal relationships, emotionality deserves full respect. You have to avoid machine consciousness… Maybe you’re trying to program an AI, but are you trying to BECOME an AI?
You can have emotions while being rational, and you can be rational while having emotions. They are opposed sometimes, but they do not always have to be. But when there is a conflict between them, rationality (so long as you practice it properly) is more reliable in reaching correct, useful conclusions.
Unless you’re involved in an emotional relationship with someone… Yes, you could take the machine approach and go “your reaction is improper based on the stimulii” or you could take a more human approach and say “oh sorry I hurt your feelings” and maybe cry with them or something. Irrationality is allowed in human relationships.
Saying “oh sorry I hurt your feelings” is just plain being nice, which is a good idea whether you are aiming to be rational or not.
That’s not irrational.
Take care not to call us Straw Vulcans. There is no conflict between trying to fulfill our goals and our goals.
You are not ready to participate in this forum, I’m afraid. If you’ve already read popularizations like “Irrationality”, “Predictably Irrational” or “Risk”, then start on the Sequences to understand what we discuss here.