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Rationality works for some things, doesn't work for others. Do you want to make sense of the world in a way that helps with your suffering? Rationality doesn't
by chobeat 8y ago
Rationality works for some things, doesn't work for others.
Do you want to make sense of the world in a way that helps with your suffering? Rationality doesn't work for most people.
Do you want to include in your model of the world knowledge that cannot be obtained with rationality? Well, then you should use something that is different than rationality.
As a society we held rationality above everything else for a couple of centuries thanks to illuminism. Yes, it helped a lot and rationality is a good tool to solve a lot of problems. Is it a perfect tool? No. Is it an omnipotent tool? Is it the tool to kill all the other tools? No. Luckily, as a society, in the last century we began to understand the limits of rationality and we are slowly transitioning to a world where rationality is used only in the context where it belongs, acknoledging its limits. The same happend with religion. In the past we used religion to explain everything and it wasn't good. Then we said: "Ok, religion takes the spot of religion and just that". The same is happening with rationality but engineers didn't take note yet, pretty much as priests took a while to be content with their spot (and still try to make religion leak in other parts of society).