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Embodying Bounded Rationality: From Embodied Bounded Rationality to Embodied Rationality.

Enrico Petracca

Frontiers in Psychology September 9, 2021 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.710607 (opens in new tab)

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Keywords Bounded rationality Herbert simon Embodied heuristics Embodied rationality
Key points The authors argue that views of embodied cognition, ranging from moderate to radical, can inform new approaches to rationality. Using Herbert Simon's bounded rationality as a fully disembodied reference point, they propose four labels—"embodied bounded rationality," "embodied rationality," "body rationality," and "extended rationality"—to map how increasing embodiment can reform or transform the idea of what is rational.

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Views of embodied cognition vary in degree of radicalism. The goal of this article is to explore how the range of moderate and radical views of embodied cognition can inform new approaches to rationality. In this exploration, Herbert Simon's bounded rationality is taken for its complete disembodiedness as a reference base against which to measure the increasing embodied content of new approaches to rationality. We use the label "embodied bounded rationality" to explore how moderate embodiment can reform Simon's bounded rationality while, on the opposite side of the embodied spectrum, the label "embodied rationality" is employed to explore how radical embodiment can more deeply transform the idea of what is rational. In between the two poles, the labels "body rationality" and "extended rationality" are introduced to explore how also intermediate embodiment can fruitfully inform the research on rationality.

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