Clouds and eggplants | Meta-rationality

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The relationship between nebulosity—the inherent fuzziness of the world—and rationality is a central concern of meta-rationality.

Exactly how many clouds are in this photograph? Image courtesy Dimitry B Nebulosity is the central concept for In the Cells of the Eggplant . The book’s fundamental theme is “how does rationality relate to nebulosity, and how can we make that work better?” Literally, nebulosity means “cloud-like-ness”: Boundaries : Clouds do not have sharp edges; they thin out gradually at the margin. As you approach a cloud (in an airplane, or on a mountain hike), you cannot say quite when you have entered it. Identity : It may be impossible to say where one cloud ends and another begins; whether two bits of

Clouds and eggplants | Meta-rationality

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