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A comment on Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?. Parent comment
Yep. There's a point in that spectrum named "trans-rational" where you have a conversation with yourself that goes something like
0) pre-rational: this is significant
1) rational: it's probably not significant, due to <reasons>
2) trans-rational: well, it may or may not be significant, but what do I stand to gain or lose from assigning some significance or other to it?
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Yep. There's a point in that spectrum named "trans-rational" where you have a conversation with yourself that goes something like
0) pre-rational: this is significant
1) rational: it's probably not significant, due to <reasons>
2) trans-rational: well, it may or may not be significant, but what do I stand to gain or lose from assigning some significance or other to it?