Rationality is the quality of ingredients of cognition that work well. As long as we don’t have cognition figured out, including sufficiently general formal agents based on decision theory that’s at the very least not in total disarray, there is also no clear notion of rationality. There’s only the open problem of what it should be, some conjectures as to the shape it might take, and particular examples of cognitive tools that seem to work.
Rationality is the quality of ingredients of cognition that work well. As long as we don’t have cognition figured out, including sufficiently general formal agents based on decision theory that’s at the very least not in total disarray, there is also no clear notion of rationality. There’s only the open problem of what it should be, some conjectures as to the shape it might take, and particular examples of cognitive tools that seem to work.