I found this paragraph extremely interesting from the point of view of the science of Mendaciology, the study of lies. Thank you for it. Nice job. I am not being satirical. Here is my analysis as a Mendaciologist in the interest of healthy dialogue.
Let's critique it!
1. Reason is about our understanding: Nope. never has been. Reason depends on two things, deduction and induction, logic or math and the premises, assumptions, of what is true or false, that fully populate the deductions. Reason without valid premises is a world of misunderstanding. A world of fiat lies and...
2. we should take seriously the metaphor that that word entails: we stand under what we can rationally explain, What is the reasoning behind this? There are about five fallacies here, and that is without even trying. I'm an expert in metaphor, entailment, who "we" are, what rationally means, and what explain means. Just a start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy
3. meaning we’re poised to pull the rug out from under it The fallacies go on. How does a metaphor poise you to another metaphor. What is It? I believe, as a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology and Psycholinguist, most people would believe it is what was incomprehensibly meant by reason. See wikipedia fallacy again.
4. because we’ve fathomed the deeper causes that make the explained thing what it is. Beware, my Ph.D. is in how the human brain comprehends causal relationships between sentences (1976, UVa, read up). This is pure fallacy. You can prove it by simply assuming one of the (many) premises underlying any faulty reasoning is not correctly identified as true or false by assumption, not by an inference of causation. You do not, for example, make a dog a dog purely out of causation, but also how it is directly observed. It's appearance.
These few sentences could make an easy dozen lies to be taken to the Internet Court of Lies to see what other people actually think about the reasoning about reasoning here. My take on this whole article is that you do not understand how the human brain computes by the computational cognitive neuroscience.
https://medium.com/liecatcher/how-your-brain-computes-41ebe7428ff9
You are fitting a lot of lies into very few words. This is fundamental to human natural language computation and how the human brain computes which are two different things entirely:
https://medium.com/liecatcher/natural-language-and-your-brain-237185770b00
The simple proof of that is here:
