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There are situations where your feelings are more reliable than your models. Are there situations where it is the other way around? How do you decide which to use?
I don't intended the original quote to be an admonition against all use of models/reasoning. My point was more or less along the lines of "listen to your feelings, they might be telling you something important. Don't disregard them just because you have some neat model, your model could be wrong."
I agree, but that does not answer the question. How do you decide which to use? What do you need in order to decide?
This boils down to: when do you know that your models are correct? And the answer is, you almost never know, unless it is already settled by science and even then there is room for error and further correction down the road(years away). But you need to make decisions now, every day.
Almost. It boils down to: when do you know that your models are correct and when do you know your feelings are correct. Well, how do you settle that question?
I don't know, but I have the impression that you have an answer in mind, care to share?
chaosmosis said it already :)
You don't have to treat your feelings and your models differently. Just use whichever one the evidence suggests is more likely to be correct in whichever situation you find you find yourself in. See?
Sounds good, but you still have to decide which one is more likely to be correct, so it doesn't seem to solve the fundamental question at hand.
Unfortunately, I can't help you with that, as you have your own models and feelings. You'll have to collect data on your own about which works better in what situation. You can probably start by going over past experiences to see if there are any apparent trends, and then just be mindful of any opportunity you might have to confirm or disconfirm any hypothesis you might generate. Watch out for unfalsifiables!
Empiricism and logic? Just treat your emotions like a model, and judge them like you would any other. Even though you can't see the inside of your emotions, neither can you see the inside of the thought processes that produce the model. I don't see why there would be any difference between the two.
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