AnnaSalamon comments on How do you notice when you're rationalizing? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AnnaSalamon 02 March 2012 07:46:54AM 4 points [-]

Let's also try the converse problem: what cues tip you off, in real life, that you are actually thinking, and that there is actually something you're trying to figure out? Please stick such cues under this comment.

Comment author: AnnaSalamon 02 March 2012 08:14:18AM 4 points [-]

Cue of not rationalizing: I find myself thinking new thoughts, hearing new ideas (if talking to someone else), and making updates I'm interested in -- even if they aren't about the specific decision I'm trying to make. The experience feels like walking through a forest looking around, and being pleasantly surprised by parts of my surroundings ("oh! maybe that is why clothes with buttons and folds and detail are more fashionable").