Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World - Rilegato

Todd, Peter M.; Gigerenzer, Gerd

 
9780195315448: Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World
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ISBN 10: 0195315448 ISBN 13: 9780195315448
Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2012

Sinossi

"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.

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Informazioni sull?autore


Peter M. Todd is Professor of Cognitive Science, Informatics, and Psychology at Indiana University.

Gerd Gigerenzer is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition.


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Editore
OUP USA
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0195315448
ISBN 13 
9780195315448
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
608
Contatto del produttore
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