EY: Has it not occurred to you that maybe, what you took to be extreme aptitude at rationalization is in fact a foil that you set up so that your actual rationalization process could continue? Because I'm pretty sure that it has. Continued, that is.
In fact, to continue my general thread of questioning the existence of intelligence, I'm not sure that there is any mode of human reasoning besides 1) rationalization and 2) deduction according to rules in a formal system. Probably, what we call rationalization is also the same process that tells you that if you... (read more)
EY: Has it not occurred to you that maybe, what you took to be extreme aptitude at rationalization is in fact a foil that you set up so that your actual rationalization process could continue? Because I'm pretty sure that it has. Continued, that is.
In fact, to continue my general thread of questioning the existence of intelligence, I'm not sure that there is any mode of human reasoning besides 1) rationalization and 2) deduction according to rules in a formal system. Probably, what we call rationalization is also the same process that tells you that if you... (read more)