The Rational Roots of the Irrational

It seems that the cognitive and intellectual tools that humans have at their disposal to understand and manipulate reality around them are fairly adequate within a medium range of things, tasks, and problems – hardly surprising, since they are probably adaptations to life on planet earth. These tools are mainly the capability to reason logically, to understand and apply the causal nexus, and to use practical concepts of time and space. . . It also seems that these same tools become pretty useless when we leave the middle range of earth reality and venture into the macro-cosmos . . .

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