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Feeling Rational — LessWrong

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Since curiosity is an emotion, I suspect that some people will object to treating curiosity as a part of rationality. A popular belief about “rationality” is that rationality opposes all emotion—that all our sadness and all our joy are automatically anti-logical by virtue of being feelings. Yet strangely enough, I can’t find any theorem of probability theory which proves that I should appear ice-cold and expressionless. When people think of “emotion” and “rationality” as opposed, I suspect that they are really thinking of System 1 and System 2—fast perceptual judgments versus slow deliberative judgments. System 2’s deliberative judgments aren’t always true, and System 1’s perceptual judgments aren’t always false; so it is very important to distinguish that dichotomy from “rationality.” Both systems can serve the goal of truth, or defeat it, depending on how they are used. For my part, I label an emotion as “not rational” if it rests on mistaken beliefs, or rather, on mistake-producing

x Rationality: A-Z — LessWrong Predictably Wrong Emotions Dual Process Theory (System 1 & System 2) Rationality Frontpage 356 Feeling Rational by Eliezer Yudkowsky 26th Apr 2007 4 min read 89 356 Since curiosity is an emotion, I suspect that some people will object to treating curiosity as a part of rationality. A popular belief about “rationality” is that rationality opposes all emotion—that all our sadness and all our joy are automatically anti-logical by virtue of being feelings . Yet strangely enough, I can’t find any theorem of probability theory which proves that I should appear ice-cold

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