Comment on A Rational Education

Richard_Kennaway
Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:50:17 GMT

(I only recently saw this comment, hence the tardy response to it.)

My guess is that for instrumental rationality the optimal courses are dance, yoga, and above all acting.

What is the relevance that you see in these? I've done yoga for a long time, and apart from mens sana in corpore sano no particular connection with rationality has ever occurred to me. Given that dance and acting are mentioned in the same breath, I suspect that your reasons for including them are something other than the social aspect of dancing in nightclubs or using acting skills for deception. How would the practice of these things assist in, say, solving a scientific research problem, negotiating a house purchase, negotiating the possibility of an intimate relationship, or raising public support for cryonics?

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