If it's simply implemented by virtue of the intentions of each individual to establish and maintain rationality at the group level, then there appears to be an alternative to the group mind hypothesis.
Once we broaden our perspective to recognize that each individual aims to maintain rationality at the collective level, it's no longer clear that there is such a gap or discontinuity between the intentionality at the level of the individuals and of the group.
Pettit is less clear in earlier pieces on how the decision procedure and the policy of maintaining rationality at the collective level is implemented (Pettit 2001, 2003).
Of course, agents must be selective in how they access the grid point membership lists to maintain bounded rationality.
Based on the observation that MPH curves are not the only curves that yield rational envelopes, we define and study rational envelope (RE) curves that generalise MPH curves while maintaining the rationality of their associated envelopes.
Methods used to cure alienation and recover animistic modes of thinking involve detachment from the social systems that tend to maintain objectivity and rationality: for example, solitude, leisure, unstructured time and direct contact with nature.
Similarly, Carnap (1952) would maintain that both scientists might be rational because rationality is relative to an inductive method or confirmation function, and the two scientists might be employing different inductive methods or confirmation functions.
Rationality is hard to maintain in an irrational world, but, as Alice found on the other side of the mirror, it is mostly worth the effort — and the surest sign of rationality is the ability to imagine that your view might indeed be the backward, mirror-image one.
If you can maintain an image of intelligence and rationality while your opponent becomes aggressive and irrational, this will help convince others of your credibility.
To resolve this problem, we introduce auctions that explicitly discard profitable trades, thus giving up perfect efficiency to maintain budget balance, incentive compatibility, and individual rationality.
For Huxley though, this was intellectual inconsistency (the greatest of sins): how could he maintain his unshakeable commitment to logic and rationality alongside his clear understanding and experience of this other, equally legitimate aspect, of human thought?
