What about this? Do you not count this because you were sleepy at the time, because it was a minor incident, or what?
(Also, I did not go through your comments to find that. Just thought I'd point that out because of shminux's comment.)
I don't remember the experience, but it sounds like a collection of absent-minded system 1 responses that build on each other, there doesn't appear to be a preferred direction to them. This is also the characterization from the comment itself:
My mind confused this single thing for the light turning off, and then produced a whole sequence of complex thoughts around this single confusion, all the way relying on this fact being true.
As I understand, "rationalization" refers to something like optimization of thoughts in the direction of a preferr...
Anna Salamon and I are confused. Both of us notice ourselves rationalizing on pretty much a daily basis and have to apply techniques like the Litany of Tarski pretty regularly. But in several of our test sessions for teaching rationality, a handful of people report never rationalizing and seem to have little clue what Tarski is for. They don't relate to any examples we give, whether fictitious or actual personal examples from our lives. Some of these people show signs of being rather high-level rationalists overall, although some don't.