Question: “Is rationality an inventory and typically human?”
Rationality is a region or set of positions of the assemblage point where we take the impulse to take inventory to the extreme.
Rationality is rather an intent. The intent to believe that we are solid objects in a world of solid objects. By believing this, we are intending the continuity of this experience, the fixation of the assemblage point. And we are creating a separation between the tonal and the nagual. The result of this is the compulsion to make inventories.
The inventory is not exclusive to rationality.
It arises from the basic impulse of self-reflection. Every conscious being has a degree of self-reflection. Without self-reflection there would be no consciousness. Every conscious being notices that there is an “other”, different from themselves.
The particularity of rationality is that we fixate on our inventory. It is the tonal’s way of trying to stay in control, and maintain the fixation of the assemblage point, constantly recreating the same description of the world, and intending that everything that occurs is consistent with this description. On the other side of the coin there is the fear of annihilation.
Rationality is typically human. This does not mean, of course, that every human being is rational, nor that there are no non-human beings in infinity that are rational.
Luno Maroscuro
