Holistic resource-rational analysis

Behav Brain Sci. 2020 Mar 11:43:e11. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X19001493.

Abstract

We argue that Lieder and Griffiths' method for analyzing rational process models cannot capture an important constraint on resource allocation, which is competition between different processes for shared resources (Klein 2018, Biology and Philosophy33:36). We suggest that holistic interactions between processes on at least three different timescales - episodic, developmental, and evolutionary - must be taken into account by a complete resource-bounded explanation.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Biological Evolution*
  • Cognition*
  • Humans