Ecological rationality
intelligence in the world
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Word Count
152,000 words, Guess
Page Count
608 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100195315448
- ISBN-139780195315448
- Library of Congress Control Number2011040733
- OCLC Control Number756200146
- Better World Books9780195315448
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL25061363M
Classifications
- DDC153
- LCCBF353 .E28 2011
- LCCBF353 .E28 2012
and 1 more
- LCCBF353.E28 2011
Description
"'More information is always better, and full information is best. More computation is always better, and optimization is best.' More-is-better ideals such as these have long shaped our vision of rationality. Yet humans and other animals typically rely on simple heuristics to solve adaptive problems, focusing on one or a few important cues and ignoring the rest, and shortcutting computation rather than striving for as much as possible. In this book, we argue that in an uncertain world, more information and computation are not always better, and we ask when, and why, less can be more. The answers to these questions constitute the idea of ecological rationality: how we are able to achieve intelligence in the world by using simple heuristics matched to the environments we face, exploiting the structures inherent in our physical, biological, social, and cultural surroundings."--Publisher's description.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Evolution and cognition series
Other Editions
- Ecological rationality: intelligence in the world
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