All you rationality mavens, with/without prefixes (vanilla, bounded-, biased-, post-, meta-)... Has anyone ever properly studied mortal-rationality? Reasoning bounded by the belief that you will certainly die within a period T, as will your descendants?
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I recall in William James' Variety of Religious Experiences, he starts with "the religion of healthy-mindedness" (basically normies with no deep spiritual leanings or introspective tendencies) and dismisses them quickly to move on to more "interesting" angsty varieties.
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yeah he thinks the “religion of healthy-mindedness” is the religion of his time so he’s more interested in the people it doesn’t work for
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Neither is determinative, but I argue that mortality is a necessary part of the explanation. You have to time such actions, and the timing reveals shifts in your mortality orientation. Kinda like suddenly getting into religion late in life does.
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