One of the most distinguishing abilities that human beings display is
the ability of turning almost everything into a clue to make a problem
affordable in relation to what one knows and, most of all, to what one
does not know. That is what characterizes humans as chance seekers. A
poor pattern of reasoning and even our ignorance may help us make a
decision, and eventually solve a problem. This is the rationale of
biased rationality. However, not everything leads us always to a good
decision. Some people are not satisfied with weak arguments or
it-is-just-so strategies. They want something better. This second
attitude points to a different form of rationality that takes
advantage of the idea of distributed cognition. Basically, human
beings improve their survival strategies by building cognitive niches
capable of delivering potentially ever more symptomatic information.
It is through various manipulations of the environment that we gain
new and more reliable chances which can be used to de-bias our
rationality. Through the laborious activity of cognitive niche
construction, we come up with situations in which we are better
afforded by our environment, and thus biases or fallacies cease to be
appealing.
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ISBN
9783642196331
Publisert
2020
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Springer
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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