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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Replying to @neovictorian23 @Meaningness
I think this articulates the strain in your writing that has always felt wrong to me. I agree about the dangers of believing your formalism somehow really is reality. I don't think any cognitive process can work "directly with reality" rather than through models and formalisms.
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Replying to @ProfJayDaigle @neovictorian23
Ah, interesting… I hope that reading that part of the book will change your mind! An intuition pump, maybe: do insects use models and formalisms? Bacteria? Even bacteria interact with the world in complex, goal-directed, effective ways.
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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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> through a causal chain result in your sticking a fork in it. What role do mathematical abstractions play in that?
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