From @Meaningness - “Reasonableness works directly with reality, whereas rationality works with formalisms. Rationalism assumes that a formalism somehow reflects reality, and glosses over questions about how that works.” https://meaningness.com/eggplant/reasonableness …
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Another intuition pump: a person is just physical stuff (unless you believe in mind/body dualism, which I’d guess you don’t). You are coupled with your environment by physical causality; photons bounce off your breakfast and trigger chemical reactions in retinal cells that >
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I argue (fictionally) in my novel Reality that photons hitting the retina and triggering neurons firing and chemical changes in the brain can *not* account for why a glimpse of something can make a man feel optimistic. That requires meaning, which physics deliberately avoids./1
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I might be introducing a distinction or two that you're not, but I think they're important. To start with a hopefully not controversial example: if we have, like, a rock, it isn't using models, but it also isn't doing anything I would call "cognition". Or "reasonable".
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In contrast, anything with a visual system is _definitely_ using models. The visual system is taking in a tremendous amount of data, throwing most of it away, and building a super faillible model of the world; this is why optical illusions work.
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