ChristianKl comments on Rationality Quotes August 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 11 August 2013 12:12:35PM *  2 points [-]

Science becomes an extra-neural extension of the human nervous system. We might expect the structure of the nervous system to throw some light on the structure of science; and, vice versa, the structure of science might elucidate the working of the human nervous system.

--Alfred Korzybski Science and Sanity Page 376 (1933)

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 11 August 2013 05:54:18PM 1 point [-]

Interesting, if indeed it is true. I'm not sure how this is supposed to be a rationality quote though.

Comment author: ChristianKl 11 August 2013 11:47:04PM 0 points [-]

It a quote about thinking about how to think. It not the standard way of thinking around here but thinking interesting thoughts about thinking encourages rationality.

Comment author: JackLight 11 August 2013 08:20:05PM 0 points [-]

In sense that you should be searching for the truth in both directions