Seeking Chances (Record no. 107599)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783642196331
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Standard number or code 10.1007/978-3-642-19633-1
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Classification number TA1-2040
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Classification number 620
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bardone, Emanuele.
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Title Seeking Chances
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Remainder of title From Biased Rationality to Distributed Cognition /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Emanuele Bardone.
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-- Berlin, Heidelberg :
-- Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
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Extent XX, 172 p.
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Series statement Cognitive Systems Monographs,
International Standard Serial Number 1867-4925 ;
Volume number/sequential designation 13
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Formatted contents note  Fallacies and Cognition: The Rationale of Being Fallacious.-  Bounded Rationality as Biased Rationality: Virtues, Vices, and Assumptions -- Moving the Bonds: Distributing Cognition through Cognitive Niche Construction -- Building Cognitive Niches: The Role of Affordances -- The Notion of Docility: The Social Dimension of Distributing Cognition -- Seeking Chances. The Moral Side.
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Summary, etc One of the most distinguishing abilities that human beings display is the ability of turning almost everything into a clue to make a problem affordable in relation to what one knows and, most of all, to what one does not know. That is what characterizes humans as chance seekers. A poor pattern of reasoning and even our ignorance may help us make a decision, and eventually solve a problem. This is the rationale of biased rationality. However, not everything leads us always to a good decision. Some people are not satisfied with weak arguments or it-is-just-so strategies. They want something better. This second attitude points to a different form of rationality that takes advantage of the idea of distributed cognition. Basically, human beings improve their survival strategies by building cognitive niches capable of delivering potentially ever more symptomatic information. It is through various manipulations of the environment that we gain new and more reliable chances which can be used to de-bias our rationality. Through the laborious activity of cognitive niche construction, we come up with situations in which we are better afforded by our environment, and thus biases or fallacies cease to be appealing.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Engineering.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Artificial intelligence.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Consciousness.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Engineering.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Engineering, general.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Cognitive Psychology.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9783642196324
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Uniform title Cognitive Systems Monographs,
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Volume number/sequential designation 13
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19633-1
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