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Man is inherently irrational എന്ന ഒരു വാദമുഖം ഉണ്ട്.
“We celebrate rationality, but when push comes to shove we assign it little weight.”
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we are continually swayed by irrelevant factors, by gut feelings and unconscious motivation, biases and other such factors.
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For most of our existence, survival meant thinking quickly, not methodically. Making a life-saving decision was more important than making a 100% accurate one. (Net)
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so the human brain developed an array of mental shortcuts.Though not as necessary as they once were, these shortcuts -- called cognitive biases or heuristics -- are numerous and innate. (InterNet)
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they affect almost everything we do, from the choice of what to wear, to judgments of moral character, to how we vote in presidential elections. We can never totally escape them, but we can be more aware of them, and, just maybe, take efforts to minimize their influence (41)

humans are rational in principle but they err in practice, that is, humans have the competence to be rational but their performance is limited by various factors. (Wiki) (42)
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Modern cognitive science and neuroscience show that studying the role of emotion in mental function (including topics ranging from flashes of scientific insight to making future plans), that no human has ever satisfied this criterion(wiki)(43)

except perhaps a person with no affective feelings, for example, an individual with a massively damaged amygdala or severe psychopathy. (wiki) (44)
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Thus, such an idealized form of rationality is best exemplified by computers, and not people. However, scholars may productively appeal to the idealization as a point of reference.(45)
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