Hmm. @Meaningness has claimed metarationality and @sarahdoingthing has claimed postrationality. I need to claim a prefix too. I think I'll take "para."
I'm a pararationalist. Yay!
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I was thinking "sub" but "subrational" sounds synonymous with "stupid." And "infrarational" sounds too systematic a description of my "project" as it were. I'd like to see somebody do "infrarationality" though (I'm thinking post-Godelian logic and foundations as scope)
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Pararationality sounds accurate for me. It's got connotations of adventitiousness, accident/serendipity, and adjacency. I'm less interested in "topping" rationality or going "beyond" it than in sort of sidling off to the sides of it. Liminal adjacent possible rationality.
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A lot of my thoughts fit this description. Like "mediocrity is good" or "evolution selects for mediocre mediocre" are prototypical pararational ideas. Their relationship to to rationality is the same as paranormal stuff to "science" -- a control group that can go out of control
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The scope of pararationality is the underdetermination of lived experience relative to rational necessity. William James will-to-believe doctrine something something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James#Will_to_believe_doctrine …
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Now if only we can get somebody to take on infrarationality as a mission, we can be the 4 horsepeople of the rationalitycalypse.
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Hmm... if I can think of enough jokes, I'm going to write this 4 horsepeople idea up as a post...
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Yes, these prefixes are still available for grabbing :D
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