From Lion's Den - Lion Kimbro's Personal Web Site - Trans-Rational:
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I had the priveledge of talking with Michael Erickson, a cartoonist, over on the Visual Wiki.
While we were talking about "old academic prejudice against pictures," he passed an idea on to me: That maybe rationalism isn't all it's cooked up to be.
Here are the main two paragraphs of it:
Prior to the renaissance, almost everything was driven by superstition or the "rules of thumb" that were known to work. Rationalism introduced the notion that logic and reason could help you figure things out (thus becoming the cornerstone to the scientific model), but it leaves out a lot.
Having seen the result of convoluted logic collapsing complex computing systems ought to convince anyone that a good thing can be taken too far, which is the case where it comes to the "logic" and "reason" that drove the "modern" mindeset of the 20th century.
If you grok that completely, especially about "Rationalism" being taken "too far," then you have no need to read the rest of this blog entry.
It took me a while to learn what he was teaching me.
I didn't think much of it, originally, but it sort of took to some of the good soil in my mind, and over the next week or two, grew quickly. I would be walking, or doing the dishes, or testing games, or whatever- and find my mind chinking out the pieces around this idea.
I started to see it.
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