In praise of insanity
I used to believe that my biggest asset was my sanity, that is my ability to reason, my ability to apply logics to problems. I have recently started to think that sanity only takes me so far, but what could take me even further is perhaps insanity, the ability to transcend reason, to make a leap of faith, to go where the logic would not take you. Perhaps Occam’s razor need not be true in all cases. Perhaps there is more than meets the eye.
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July 14th, 2008 at 12:58 am
sounds good, but so far in my experience the problem with insanity (in the sense you’re talking about it) has been its un-repeatability, as opposed to reason (not that the latter always works either). or something like that. however, this might be because we merely don’t have enough practice in being insane.
also, are you sure if it’s insanity, what you’re talking about, as opposed to, say, using reason with an uncommon utility function? i mean even in logical decision making you make a decision in the face of uncertainty and hope for the best. now it seems to me given the freedom to chose a utility function it may be possible to explain any kind of decision making as rational.