Unconscious Surrealism: Effect of grappling with a post-rationalist theme with tools of rationalism while desperately holding on to sanity
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The main trick to postrationalism is rationally deciding when to let go of sanity in a calibrated way. Or letting go control of cognition...
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...it's entropic cognition because you can't "rationally" choose to go sane again. You have to trust to luck for restoration of sanity
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...and there is no guarantee that you'll be restored to the same _kind_ of sanity even if you _are_ restored.
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...If you are ever 100% convinced there is only one kind of sanity, that is when you are irretrievably insane. Oddly we believe the reverse
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We are told there is only one kind of sanity, many kinds of insanity. False! There are many kinds of sanity, only 1 kind of insanity.
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To believe an impossible thing, you have to change your operating sanity. This is a dual boot type thing, not a rational 'mind change'.
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It is a good habit to believe in 6 impossible things before breakfast. Which means discovering six *new* sanities per day.
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This is why refactoring relies on creative insight to boot into new sanity. A good insight is an entire new kind of sanity. A brain OS.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. This happens via nascent-new-sane, aka partially insane rebooting into new sanities by luck
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