[extropy-chat] examples of rational irrationalism

[The Avantguardian]

This is a resend.

Marcello apparently chased the gremlin out of his
server and into ExI-chat's.


--- The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 
> --- Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net> wrote:
>  
> > Once you get familiar with the idea that
> assessment
> > of rationality
> > necessarily implies a context, and that assessment
> > of morality necessary
> > implies an increasing context and scope, then you
> > come to the
> > interesting observation that all subjective
> contexts
> > are necessarily
> > incomplete, i.e. subsumed within a greater context
> > of potential (future)
> > awareness, leading to the idea of an arrow of
> > increasing -- what? --
> 
> I believe the word you are looking for is extropy or
> the more cumbersome negentropy.
> 
> 
> > For those who are interested enough to think
> through
> > the preceding, the
> > next likely stumbling block in the train of
> thought
> > has to do with
> > remembering that all assessments are necessarily
> > subjective, but that
> > they tend toward increasing objectivity as they
> are
> > tested via
> > interaction within increasing scope of reality.
> 
> I agree. This is where a second opinion, or peer
> review, comes into play as a test of the objectivity
> of an idea.
>  
> > A result of such thinking is clear resolution of
> > such so-called
> > paradoxes as "free-will" and "meaning of life",
> but
> > you give up any
> > belief in an intrinsic Self in the process.
> 
> This is the sound of one hand clapping.
> 
> Stuart LaForge
> alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu
> 
> "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in
> it, doesn't go away." - Phillip K. Dick
> 
> 
>  
>
____________________________________________________________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail
> beta.
> http://new.mail.yahoo.com
> 


Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Phillip K. Dick


 
____________________________________________________________________________________
Want to start your own business?
Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business.
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index