Necro but maybe I can add something to the debate....
A problem I see is there are common cases where it is rational to be irrational, for example if being rational causes you emotional distress due to circumstances beyond your control.
And this is a big problem if one's will to be "rational" is at root based on an emotional will to be "less wrong" for the purpose of improving internal feelings of one's own value.
Because if that is the naked honest goal, then that rationalism is Hedonism by yet another name.
But realizing that might be destabilizing to the ra...
You are fully sentient (having experiences) during all phases of sleep. It is the brain processes related to MEMORY that shut down causing you not to remember it.
How do we know this? Myself and many people I've talked to have had the experience of almost falling asleep and then waking back up and realizing we were just thinking about a bunch on nonsense thoughts strung together in a stream of consciousness manner. For example:
"I am thinking about to go to the dog is up there is a good view of my office manager isnt really such a big potato chips are the li