Dreaded_Anomaly comments on Reflections on rationality a year out - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 01 April 2011 01:56:16AM 2 points [-]

That was a very interesting article; I had not previously encountered such a perspective on the subject.

I don't agree with all of it, though:

And as long as you stick with the sterile denotative language of psychology, and the logical mode of the waking mind, you won't be able to --- because you can't reach and program the unconscious mind that way.

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Only...that cold and mechanistic a way of thinking about the Gods simply will not work when you want to evoke one. For full understanding, the Apollonian/scientific mode is essential; for direct experience, the Dionysian/ecstatic mode is the only way to go.

Needs more joy in the merely real, and maybe some how an algorithm feels from the inside. But still, very interesting.