From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2009-02-27T08:06:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

On 26 Feb 2009, at 22:14, Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 26.02.2009 11:17, Eleanor McHugh wrote:
>> Rationality has its uses, but carried to extremes it leaves the  
>> mind  trapped in a particular logical fallacies with no means of  
>> breaking  free. The universe after all is nothing more than a multi- 
>> dimensional  bumpy phase space full of highly misleading localised  
>> minima and  anyone who sits atop one is bound to be even more  
>> misguided than those  of us who get to the top of one slope and  
>> then decide to go for a  wander into the next valley. Who knows  
>> what exciting rabbit-holes we  may find there >8p
>
> That's another interesting way to look at it.  May way to look at
> decision making is this: rational decision making can only do "I  
> choose X because of Y".  Then you have to say "I choose Y because of  
> Z". Basically the chain would not end unless at some point Y is  
> something which you simply do not question.  It's either a  
> requirement coming from the outside or it is a value that is part of  
> your system of convictions.  In that sense rational decision making  
> is a myth because all decisions are rooted in the irrational.   
> Hopefully I wasn't too cryptic...

It seems we're both rationally irrational then as opposed to  
irrationally rational lol


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason