Peter M. Todd

Ecological Rationality

Intelligence in the World

Ebook (PDF Format)

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 ecologic… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Gigerenzer, Gerd

ISBN: 978-0-19-971794-1
EAN: 9780199717941
Produktnummer: 13998701
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 4'216 KB
Abbildungen: 20 halftones, 70 line illus.

Über den Autor

Peter M. ToddProfessor Cognitive Science, Informatics, and Psychology at Indiana UniversityGerd GigerenzerDirector, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition