We may be overthinking things here. What's wrong with defining it as the capacity to make choices when more than one option is available?
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:17 AM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 8/1/2012 5:04 AM, Russell Standish wrote: > >> Yes - and rationality often does not help much. In such situations, it >> is often better to make a fast decision than a good one. Only >> irrational agents can make fast decisions. >> > > Almost all real decisions (even in chess) are time constrained. How can > it be rational to wait too long for your decision to matter and irrational > to make a quick decision on incomplete information, on incomplete analysis? > > > >> > From the responses I've received on this list, I don't think people >> are using the term rational in the same way it is used in >> economics. Flipping a coin is never rational, although it may well be >> the best thing to do. >> > Random moves are optimum in many games and provably so. What meaning of > 'rational' are you using? > > > Brent > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to > everything-list@googlegroups.**com<everything-list@googlegroups.com> > . > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscribe@ > **googlegroups.com <everything-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/everything-list?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
