- [[Math]] creates rational structure to the world. - Rationality is capacity for realizing your capacities for self-delusion, and for allowing for self-correction - ratio, rationing (to counter [[Combinatorial explosion]]), rational - To help us generate [[Connectedness]] with the world ![[After Socrates Episode 3 - Dialectic Into Dia-Logos Dr. John Vervaeke#^u3jxud]] - This includes correcting through improving character - We need to find reliable methods of coming into contact with reality - overcoming self-deception, developing character, realizing wisdom, contact with reality and psyche, that is rationality - upon these assumptions, goal is to be as human as possible - Rationality is caring about the process of [[Cognition]] - reliably and systematically overcoming self-deception - systematically implies it is universal - Reliably also means that we can recursively become more rational - ![[After Socrates Episode 11 - Proper Proportions & the Right Mode Dr. John Vervaeke#^8j8z60]] - Just like [[Divine double]] - rationality is part of losing fixation on product, more on process for its own sake - yet this is - [[Rationality versus expertise]] - Uses [[Insight]]s to gain inference - to be rational, we need to possess our own standards - Values, [[Credo]] - Identify our own [[Parts of a problem]] so we can do [[Problem solving]] - [[Human Errors in Rationality]] - Unlike intelligence which is fixed, rationality is malleable - it is a self-organizing thing to help us achieve [[Wisdom]] ## Benefits Promotes capacity for [[Problem solving]] since we can theorize optimal solutions: - ![[Range Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World#^02l8wb]] - This is why [[Linking Your Thinking]] is so important. Being a linked note taker helps you practice this general capacity for [[Thinking]] ## Experiences SAP 100% win rate - How well do you understand the solution space - Good choice of affordances