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Error management, reliability and cognitive evolution
The paper offers a partial vindication of Sterelny’s view on the role of error rates and reliability in his theory of decoupled representation based on modelling techniques borrowed from the biological literature on evolution in stochastic environments. In the case of a tight link between tracking s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5842294/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29563654 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-017-9583-1 |
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description | The paper offers a partial vindication of Sterelny’s view on the role of error rates and reliability in his theory of decoupled representation based on modelling techniques borrowed from the biological literature on evolution in stochastic environments. In the case of a tight link between tracking states and behaviour, I argue that in its full generality Sterelny’s account instantiates the base-rate fallacy. With regard to non-tightly linked behaviour, I show that Sterelny’s account can be vindicated subject to an adequate evolutionary model and a suitable notion of reliability. |
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spelling | pubmed-58422942018-03-19 Error management, reliability and cognitive evolution Autzen, Bengt Biol Philos Article The paper offers a partial vindication of Sterelny’s view on the role of error rates and reliability in his theory of decoupled representation based on modelling techniques borrowed from the biological literature on evolution in stochastic environments. In the case of a tight link between tracking states and behaviour, I argue that in its full generality Sterelny’s account instantiates the base-rate fallacy. With regard to non-tightly linked behaviour, I show that Sterelny’s account can be vindicated subject to an adequate evolutionary model and a suitable notion of reliability. Springer Netherlands 2017-09-11 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5842294/ /pubmed/29563654 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-017-9583-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Autzen, Bengt Error management, reliability and cognitive evolution |
title | Error management, reliability and cognitive evolution |
title_full | Error management, reliability and cognitive evolution |
title_fullStr | Error management, reliability and cognitive evolution |
title_full_unstemmed | Error management, reliability and cognitive evolution |
title_short | Error management, reliability and cognitive evolution |
title_sort | error management, reliability and cognitive evolution |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5842294/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29563654 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-017-9583-1 |
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