Re: virus: Rationality

Alexander Williams (thantos@alf.dec.com)
Tue, 25 Feb 1997 20:14:53 -0500


? wrote:
> I didn't ask about rational or irrational *behaviors*. I asked about
> rational/irrational *thinking*.

Are you now going to define `thinking' as a non-action?

Not to fuel the subjective/objective reality question, but all we can
know about any res, including the model of our own minds, is perceptual.
I can exhibit irrational outward behaviour from any number of points of
view. I can observe in my own mind that my thought process, the model
of processes in my own memesphere, does not conform to mapping
expectations as given by "rationality." I cannot, however, state any
surety /beyond that point/.

-- 
   Alexander Williams{thantos@alf.dec.com/zander@photobooks.com}
The  Mekton  is a  powerful tool,  both  physically and emotionally.
There is something that  happens to an  enemy when he sees his  home
and family stepped on by a hundred ton metal man.    -- Arkon Verian
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Of  all the weapons of the  Empire, the  greatest and most respected
were the Metal Knights.  These Knights had served the leaders of the
Bendar for Generations,   righting wrongs and  bringing  fear to the
Empire's Enemies.  It is  said that these  metal giants were  shaped
like men so  that the alien servants of  Evil would know that it was
Man who defeated them.
                               -- Scribings from the Murian Archives