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More Thumbs Than Rules: Is Rationality an Exaptation?

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dc.contributor.authorMastrogiorgio, Antonio
dc.contributor.authorFelin, Teppo
dc.contributor.authorKauffman, Stuart
dc.contributor.authorMastrogiorgio, Mariano
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dc.date.accessioned2024-07-08T13:15:09Z
dc.date.available2024-07-08T13:15:09Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe literatures on bounded and ecological rationality are built on adaptationism—and its associated modular,cognitivist and computational paradigm—that does not address or explain the evolutionary origins of rationality. We argue that the adaptive mechanisms of evolution are not sufficient for explaining human rationality,and we posit that human rationality presents exaptive origins,where exaptations are traits evolved for other functions or no function at all,and later co-opted for new uses. We propose an embodied reconceptualization of rationality—embodied rationality—based on the reuse of the perception-action system,where many neural processes involved in the control of the sensory-motor system,salient in ancestral environments have been later co-opted to create—by tinkering—high-level reasoning processes,employed in civilized niches. Copyright © 2022 Mastrogiorgio,Felin,Kauffman and Mastrogiorgio.
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dc.identifier.citationMastrogiorgio, A., Felin, T., Kauffman, S., & Mastrogiorgio, M. (2022). More thumbs than rules: Is rationality an exaptation?. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 805743. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.805743
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.805743
dc.identifier.issn16641078
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3167
dc.journal.titleFrontiers in Psychology
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dc.publisherFrontiers Media S.A.
dc.relation.departmentStrategy
dc.relation.entityIE University
dc.relation.schoolIE Business School
dc.rightsAttribution 4,0 International
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dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.keywordBounded rationality
dc.subject.keywordEmbodied rationality
dc.subject.keywordExaptation
dc.subject.keywordHeuristics
dc.subject.keywordNeural reuse
dc.subject.keywordSpandrels
dc.titleMore Thumbs Than Rules: Is Rationality an Exaptation?
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