Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World - Couverture rigide

Todd, Peter M.; Gigerenzer, Gerd

 
9780195315448: Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0195315448 ISBN 13 : 9780195315448
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2012

Synopsis

"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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À propos de l?auteur


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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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195315448
ISBN 13 
9780195315448
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
608
Coordonnées du fabricant
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