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Rational Minds Part 5: Heuristics Make Us Smart - Gerd Gigerenzer

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Evolution of Heuristics

How many different fast and fugal heuristics have you identified in the adaptive toolbox? I would say I talk about classes of heuristic, like reasons with heuristics. Then there's another class of heuristics, which goes sequentially. So fast and frugal trees are a good example for that or take the best. None of these heuristics is good or bad. That's very important. Don't look down to imitation. Of that, humankind couldn't have the cultural revolution that it had. There's no species where infants imitate so precisely and so generally as in humans. And that's the big advantage.

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