Series will continue
A few days ago, I intended to complete my promised post (which has been in progress) on rationality, emotions and humanity, but with Monday came news of the massacre at Virginia Tech. I thought that it was a good opportunity to reflect more before releasing the essay. After all, the incident begs all kinds of questions about whether the gunman was rational, about his view of himself as a person, about how emotions and imagination are connected to rationality, and of what happens to human capabilities when they cannot thrive (for whatever reason, which is still under investigation).
So I will soon be releasing a few concluding essays laying out my basic “worldview”, if you want to use that term. I’d just like to take time to refine them.