Interesting point about propositional logic vs. statistics. Unfortunately I find propositional logic a lot easier to think about, at least consciously...
This reminds me a little bit of how in theory, depressed people are more rational than non-depressed people (people who are not depressed are likely seeing things more optimistically than is justified), and yet *not* being depressed makes life easier... so it's rational to be irrational :-) -- which may be exactly what you're saying, in different terms.
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Date: 2013-01-01 01:58 am (UTC)This reminds me a little bit of how in theory, depressed people are more rational than non-depressed people (people who are not depressed are likely seeing things more optimistically than is justified), and yet *not* being depressed makes life easier... so it's rational to be irrational :-) -- which may be exactly what you're saying, in different terms.