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Ep. 40 - Wisdom and Rationality

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

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The Cognitive Science of Rationality

The rationality debate was driven by a whole bunch of experimental results that seem to show that human beings are irrational. So on balance, they're not that rational of a person, right? And of course, I'm not claiming that everybody is rational in a domain general way. But we can then take a look at Stanibich's work and other people's work. They talk about aspirational rationality. Other people talk about this when they talk like Agnes Kullard,. When she talks about aspirationalrationality.

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