[mghackerlady]

I personally think of humans as some kind of rational machine. We get input from our thoughts, knowledge, and the world around us and generally get whatever the most rational outcome is. The problem with this is that our input is limited to what we know, our general thoughts, and the world around us

[jamilton]

Hm, I think there’s more to it than that. It is often the case that someone will do something and regret it without having necessarily gained any new information, which is in a sense irrational, right? If you didn’t gain information, you could have known to just not done it to begin with. Something about experiences, perhaps?

[mghackerlady]

I feel like regret would be an input to any decision as well. If you regretted doing something similar in the past, would that not be a reason someone would choose not to do something?

[lstodd]

Good question would be: is it rational to act on known-to-be-incomplete data? Is it rational to rely on assumptions?

What readily follows is the question: is it even possible to be rational, or is it a delusion?