Seeking Chances From Biased Rationality to Distributed Cognition /

• Main Author: Bardone, Emanuele (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Cognitive Systems Monographs, 13
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Cognitive psychology.; Engineering, general.; Cognitive Psychology.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

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 re...

Table of Contents:

•  Fallacies and Cognition: The Rationale of Being Fallacious.-  Bounded Rationality as Biased Rationality: Virtues, Vices, and Assumptions
• Moving the Bonds: Distributing Cognition through Cognitive Niche Construction
• Building Cognitive Niches: The Role of Affordances
• The Notion of Docility: The Social Dimension of Distributing Cognition
• Seeking Chances. The Moral Side.