Is the following definition appropiate to rationality?
- truebene
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Is the following definition appropiate to rationality?
THE ABBILITY OF A SPECIE TO MODIFY THE ENTROPY OF THE UNIVERSE WITHOUT THE SAKE OF IT'S OWN SURVIVAL.
For instance the bees or the lions have only needs (that change the entropy ot the universe) that will grant their survival (eating, drinking, sleeping), and thus they don't possess the previous said abbility. Where humans can play music or making a lots of copies of some object (phones,clothes), playing videogames, doing physics, science, and other consciousness activities. Basically modifying the entropy of the universe not with the purpose of its survival. Making same copies of clothes or phones, playing videogames doesn't raise the chances of survival, but changes the entropy.
How do you think, is this a good definition, is it not? Why so?
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Re: Is the following definition appropiate to rationality?
In my opinion, rationality is thinking and behaving in a self consistent manner, particularly in relation to one's goals. For example, suppose someone's primary goal in life is to make as much money as possible, it may be irrational for them to then unnecessarily spend money on things they don't need.
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Re: Is the following definition appropiate to rationality?
I think it makes more sense to define rationality, in its broadest sense, as the ability to see patterns and to create abstractions from those patterns. By "abstractions" I mean concepts, such as mathematics (but not just mathematics), that can model the patterns in the physical world but are not part of that world.
I suspect that it is this ability to abstract that leads to the ability to construct rational arguments.
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