Friday, March 13, 2009

Quote of the Week: Philosophizing

In an uncertain environment, good intuitions must ignore information.

Gerd Gigerenzer in Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious (2007, Penguin Group USA)

Do cells do this (i.e. focus in on key pieces of information at the expense of other information prior to making decisions)? Do scientists? Should they?

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