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I don't think I'm parsing this correctly. Could you expand on it a bit?
Well, you'll find plenty of agreement here, for certain definitions of "unsolved".
You need the Sith parser :-)
I guess the point I am making is that Reason alone is not enough and a lot of what we call Reason is technology derived from the effect on brains on being able to write. There is some interesting research on how cognition and reasoning differs between literate and preliterate people. I think Emotion plays a critical role in decision making. I am not going out to bat for Faith except in the Taras Bulba sense: "I put my faith in my sword and my sword in the Pole!" (The Polish were the enemy of the Cossack Taras Bulba in the ancient Yul Brynner flick I am quoting from.)
Whee, references!
We create technologies to help us do stuff better - Taras' sword being only one example. Why not a technology to help us think better? Heck, there are plenty of "mental technologies" besides Rationality - a great example would be the Memory Palace visualization technique (it's featured in an episode of Sherlock, for bonus reference points, but it's not portrayed very well; Google it instead.)