The accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition
I argue that bounded agents face a systematic accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition. Agents must choose whether to structure their cognition in ways likely to promote coherence or accuracy. I illustrate the accuracy-coherence tradeoff by showing how it arises out of at least two component tradeof...
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University of Chicago Press
2021
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| author | Thorstad, D |
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| description | I argue that bounded agents face a systematic accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition. Agents must choose whether to structure their cognition in ways likely to promote coherence or accuracy. I illustrate the accuracy-coherence tradeoff by showing how it arises out of at least two component tradeoffs: a coherence-complexity tradeoff between coherence and cognitive complexity, and a coherence-variety tradeoff between coherence and strategic variety. These tradeoffs give rise to an accuracy-coherence tradeoff because privileging coherence over complexity or strategic variety often leads to a corresponding reduction in accuracy. I conclude with a discussion of two normative consequences for the study of bounded rationality: the importance of procedural rationality and the role of coherence in theories of bounded rationality |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:136cf84e-1f5e-478e-a19d-ad77db70aebf2024-10-24T08:21:09ZThe accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognitionJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:136cf84e-1f5e-478e-a19d-ad77db70aebfEnglishSymplectic ElementsUniversity of Chicago Press2021Thorstad, DI argue that bounded agents face a systematic accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition. Agents must choose whether to structure their cognition in ways likely to promote coherence or accuracy. I illustrate the accuracy-coherence tradeoff by showing how it arises out of at least two component tradeoffs: a coherence-complexity tradeoff between coherence and cognitive complexity, and a coherence-variety tradeoff between coherence and strategic variety. These tradeoffs give rise to an accuracy-coherence tradeoff because privileging coherence over complexity or strategic variety often leads to a corresponding reduction in accuracy. I conclude with a discussion of two normative consequences for the study of bounded rationality: the importance of procedural rationality and the role of coherence in theories of bounded rationality |
| spellingShingle | Thorstad, D The accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition |
| title | The accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition |
| title_full | The accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition |
| title_fullStr | The accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition |
| title_full_unstemmed | The accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition |
| title_short | The accuracy-coherence tradeoff in cognition |
| title_sort | accuracy coherence tradeoff in cognition |
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