On 1/18/2014 9:41 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
No, I'm not. Rational agents are entirely predictable. They always
choose the best course of action, or fail to make a choice at
all ("it does not compute!"). They cannot behave unpredictably.
Why not. Not having one's behavior predictable by others is often the best course of
action. Even not being able to predict one's own behavior may be advantageous - and I
would say that in general one's actions are not highly predictable even by oneself. I
don't think your concept of rational agent has much scope of application. "Best course of
action" can only be defined relative to values which are themselves not ultimately
rational (i.e. there is no "best set of values") and can change even as actions are taken
and events unfold.
Brent
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any
other office than to serve and obey them.
--- David Hume
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