People don’t see desire to be rational as a desire? You mean, it’s instrumental rather than terminal?
Definitely the first for me, I remember staring at the cover of the sequences and clearly seeing that they would change me and make me stronger. It was an offer of power, and I made a conscious decision to accept it.
I suppose that insofar as humans are already rational, we probably did evolve it for survival purposes. But… survival purposes often required irrationality.
People don’t see desire to be rational as a desire? You mean, it’s instrumental rather than terminal?
Definitely the first for me, I remember staring at the cover of the sequences and clearly seeing that they would change me and make me stronger. It was an offer of power, and I made a conscious decision to accept it.
I suppose that insofar as humans are already rational, we probably did evolve it for survival purposes. But… survival purposes often required irrationality.