/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9098998
Formal logic is good and all, but you don't always have a piece of paper to manipulate symbols, neither can you always turn real world situations into symbolic representations (We would have AGI by now if you could).

When you need to make rational decisions on the fly or to give actual rational arguments (If you wanna win debates it's another story. You need to be witty and charismatic rather than logical. You need to work the audience and actually USE the fallacies) then you need to have some kind of intuitional understanding of your limitations and the ways to overcome them. Basically you need to train your brain to do these things automatically in a heuristic sort of way. Symbols put layers of insulation between your consciousness and the actual implications of the relationships derived. Read this shit homie..