The Holism of Life Management and Learning
The thesis of The Epistemology of Irrationality was that insanity/irrationality is a lack of integrated understanding of one’s overall body of beliefs, necessitating holistic management of one’s thinking and psychology. I posited that it’s wise to believe that the definition of rationality is not being irrational , making the post a treatise on both. The Holism of Life Management and Learning compliments that treatise. It reintroduces the puzzle of life (POL) as a complex system of variables, explaining why it can only be understood by holistic analysis. Since ER is my solution to the POL, this will also serve as an informal intro to extralogical reasoning. First, one must understand the origins of the need for a POL. In the third part of the ER intro, I asserted that self-delusion was an inevitable consequence of naturally selected self-awareness. In other words, even ignoring the total impossibilit...