I use rational in the sense of being reasonable. To me, the phrase: "It stands to reason." = "It seems rational."
The difference between my version of 'rational' and your version seems rather odd to me too. Being rational is not being sentient. An animal- when acting outside the scope of its instinct alone - could be said to be rational. A judgment of 'pragmatism" has nothing to do with the fact that it wags its tail at you because it recognizes you, or ignores you when it doesn't. Pragmatism is a rational means for solving paradoxical situations. Sentience, of senses and spirit, of dimensionality - is not something one can induce via rational thought alone. I suspect your universe of the mind has much room for expansion, for you seem to limit the boundaries of your vocabulary to become less than even the Oxford dictionary allows for. Rational - "(of a person) able to think clearly and make decisions based on reason rather than emotions synonym reasonable No rational person would ever behave like that. Oxford Collocations Dictionary." Sentient - "[usually before noun] (formal) able to see or feel things through the senses Man is a sentient being. There was no sign of any sentient life or activity. Oxford Collocations DictionarySentient is used with these nouns: being See full entry Word Origin." Irrational - I somewhat confer with Miriam Websters b version thereof ": not governed by or according to reason" But then, if we did that, we would have to reject all science making use of any irrational term. Clearly, the term irrational, in this sense, refers to another form of reason we have not yet defined properly. For example, is consciousness rational, or irrational, or something else? ________________________________ From: WriterOfMinds <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, 09 November 2019 08:46 To: AGI <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [agi] Against Legg's 2007 definition of intelligence Nanograte, you seem to use "rational" oddly. Almost as if it's a synonym for "pragmatic." That's not what I was trying to say at all. In the sense I had in mind, the word means "possessing higher reasoning powers," as in the phrase, "man is a rational animal." I paired it with "sapient" because that's a similar concept. I did not mean "strictly logical" or "hyper-practical" or "single-minded and obsessive" or "amoral" or "rigid." Artificial General Intelligence List<https://agi.topicbox.com/latest> / AGI / see discussions<https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + participants<https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + delivery options<https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> Permalink<https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T6cada473e1abac06-M86277be3ece1a0ee9cc25ad5> ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T6cada473e1abac06-M97f5e999ae7c66479fe6cef5 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
