[Icare dixit]

How important is rationality to you?

I don't care much for it, beyond a need to communicate as effectively as possible. I don't mind uncertainty or losing control much. It's problematic, but I don't see that. I don't fear it much and that's what matters most, I think.

But it is interesting. Epistemology and the application and deception of rationality.

[BastetsMuse]

Being rational is important to me. I view it as being a good substitute for sanity.

Very important to me. I need my rational mind at work, as a parent, etc. I don't have the time to deal with the problem an irrational me would create.

[Icare dixit]

Originally Posted by BastetsMuse

Being rational is important to me. I view it as being a good substitute for sanity.

Ok, that I very much agree with. I don't see it as a substitute though but the embodiment of. Rationality as a belief system and conceptual framework, naming form and function/state, especially abstract types, keeps you longer in the sphere of reason, so to speak.

I should've made that distinction.

But being rationally, to remain rational, to be rational at all times or at any moment, is something I don't care much about (and I try very hard not to)—rationally. Of course in times of psychosis my mind finds it extremely important to stay rational. I try to fight that urge very much. If it works, there is a new state to name, making me more rational.

Paradoxical, but I think and believe both to be very important.