wedrifid comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 05 April 2012 08:59:37PM 2 points [-]

I expect there is a correlation between degree of organisation, degree of discipline and measures of a minds' 'power'. But this relationship is definitely not one of a series of "is a".

Think of the martial arts metaphor people here keep using in regards to rationality.

To be honest I try not to. That kind of thinking seems to lead to "koans", which seem to be a name for saying things that are blatantly false but feeling deep while doing so because there is some loosely related not-false lesson that someone could conceivably deconstruct from the koan.