Huang, Linus Ta-Lun and Bechtel, William (2020) A Phylogenetic Perspective on Distributed Decision-Making Mechanisms. [Preprint]
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Abstract
This paper challenges a common assumption about decision- making mechanisms in humans: decision-making is a distinctively high-level cognitive activity implemented by mechanisms concentrated in the higher-level areas of the cortex. We argue instead that human behavior is controlled by a multiplicity of highly distributed, heterarchically organized decision-making mechanisms. We frame it in terms of control mechanisms that procure and evaluate information to select activities of controlled mechanisms and adopt a phylogenetic perspective, showing how decision-making is realized in control mechanisms in a variety of species. We end by discussing this picture's implication for high-level cognitive decision-making.
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Keywords: | philosophy of neuroscience, control mechanisms, decision-making; phylogenetic refinement; heterarchical networks; hypothalamus; basal ganglia | |||||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Neuroscience |
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Depositing User: | Professor William Bechtel | |||||||||
Date Deposited: | 28 May 2020 03:01 | |||||||||
Last Modified: | 28 May 2020 03:01 | |||||||||
Item ID: | 17250 | |||||||||
Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Neuroscience |
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Date: | 27 May 2020 | |||||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17250 |
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