Dynamics and Rationality

Dynamics and Rationality . The model of rationality that I am proposing centers around what I call critical principles -- knowledge of error, negative knowledge, knowledge of principles that (if articulable) yield grounds for criticism. I begin the discussion with models of how primitive error knowledge could be expected to emerge in systems with particular dynamic properties. Internal knowledge of error constitutes an internalization of selection pressures, a beginning internalization of variation and selection processes more broadly.

For more complex systems, such as human beings, that possess the properties discussed above, such as levels of knowing, this internalization of variation and selection processes can proceed complexly and unboundedly. I argue that there is an inherent tendency toward that internalization -- and that it constitutes an inherent tendency toward the development of rationality.