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"Game theory, and related studies such as economic behavorial choice theory posit “rational actors”, logic models and linear controlled inputs and outputs that simplify reality and attempt to predict behaviors and outcomes in complex interrelations and systems. The theories that result are riddled with paradoxes and cannot model for seemingly rational or irrational behavior because there is no useful definition of rationality that works outside of simplistic logic games"

Wouldn't this be a-prori true due to Godel's incompleteness theorem which basically posits any logically consistent system contains at least one not rationally provable assumption that is the basis from which all the rest of the rational corollaries are entailed?

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Yes Shakespeare said a lot when he said, "there is more in heaven and Earth than are dreamed of in you philosophy Horatio." Horatio was the original midwit models over reality guy. And was mercilessly mocked in that Dylan song about Mr. Jones. The poets always got this, Walt Whitmen and Bukowski couldn't stand midwit nerds.

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