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Efficient Cognition - The Evolution of Representational Decision Making (Hardcover)
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Efficient Cognition - The Evolution of Representational Decision Making (Hardcover)
Series: Efficient Cognition
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An argument that representational decision making is more
cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily
to changes in the environment. Many organisms (including humans)
make decisions by relying on mental representations. Not simply a
reaction triggered by perception, representational decision making
employs high-level, non-perceptual mental states with content to
manage interactions with the environment. A person making a
decision based on mental representations, for example, takes a step
back from her perceptions at the time to assess the nature of the
world she lives in. But why would organisms rely on
representational decision making, and what evolutionary benefits
does this reliance provide to the decision maker? In Efficient
Cognition, Armin Schulz argues that representational decision
making can be more cognitively efficient than non-representational
decision making. Specifically, he shows that a key driver in the
evolution of representational decision making is that mental
representations can enable an organism to save cognitive resources
and adjust more efficiently to changed environments. After laying
out the foundations of his argument-clarifying the central
questions, the characterization of representational decision
making, and the relevance of an evidential form of evolutionary
psychology-Schulz presents his account of the evolution of
representational decision making and critically considers some of
the existing accounts of the subject. He then applies his account
to three open questions concerning the nature of representational
decision making: the extendedness of decision making, and when we
should expect cognition to extend into the environment; the
specialization of decision making and the use of simple heuristics;
and the psychological sources of altruistic behaviors.
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