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I think rationality is useful because it is the only reliable path to truth. And truth is required to accomplishing almost everything. Except happiness...which may have been your original point.

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Or more generally, inner truth. This is why I am not a rationalist or an objectivist. Human experience itself is subjective, and even if through supreme rationality we are able to pry apart our psyches and lay it bare as a pile of neurons then what? Do we feel good about that?

I choose to believe in a higher consciousness because it makes my life richer, not because I am hiding from rational, physical, objective truth.

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