[ExI] Meta question

[rex]

William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> [2016-08-17 12:12]:

>    Actually, if you want a discussion about irrationality with this
>    psychologist, you can have one any time, but be prepared for ARistotle,
>    Plato, Freud, Jung, Adler, Pinker et alia.  The word 'strategy' seems a
>    bit odd.  That is, if one can recognize that a rational strategy and an
>    irrational strategy exists, why would pick the irrational?  Or is that
>    your question?

Because "free will" is an adaptive illusion?

Or, "irrational" depends upon the assumptions (AKA postulates). Suitably change
the assumptions and voila, the irrational strategy becomes a rational strategy.

-rex
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