Bounded rationality, enactive problem solving, and the neuroscience of social interaction.
Front Psychol May 18, 2023 Riccardo Viale, Shaun Gallagher, Vittorio Gallese 19 citations
Human action can be explained not only through the normative model of decision making based on Subjective Expected Utility theory, but also through an alternative approach that merges Herbert Simon's bounded rationality with embodied cognition. This framework, termed enactive problem solving, emphasizes that problem solving involves recursive feedback processes and interaction with environmental affordances, bypassing the analytic phase of decision making. The centre of rationality lies in adaptation to the external environment rather than internal representation. This view can explain adaptive heuristics in both practical and abstract tasks.