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Resource-rationality and dynamic coupling of brains and social environments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

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Don Ross*
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School of Sociology, Philosophy, Criminology, Government, and Politics, University College Cork, CorkT12 AW89, Ireland. don.ross931@gmail.com School of Economics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch7701, South Africa. http://uct.academia.edu/DonRoss Center for Economic Analysis of Risk, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA30303
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Abstract

Leider and Griffiths clarify the basis for unification between mechanism-driven and solution-driven disciplines and methodologies in cognitive science. But, two outstanding issues arise for their model of resource-rationality: human brains co-process information with their environments, rather than merely adapt to them; and this is expressed in methodological differences between disciplines that complicate Leider and Griffiths’ proposed structural unification.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e20
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