Fri Jul 7, 2017 11:48 PM
Remember the Fourth Turning that Stephen Bannon was so obsessed with? Well, there *might* be a case to be made, but not in the way he thinks. Forgive the headline (Cognitive Control), it’s very misleading.
“In a paper forthcoming in Psychological Review, we set out to understand why control might follow this proliferation-then-collapse pattern. One assumption of our model is that controlled processing is costly but leads to smarter decisions with better long-run payoffs. Using principles of cognitive psychology, game theory, and population dynamics, we generated a series of formal mathematical analyses that examine the competition between agents that vary in their extent of controlled processing. The agents interact in an environment that is continually being modified by the agents’ use of controlled versus non-controlled processing, altering the benefits of control. Our analyses examined the change over time in both the population’s level of controlled processing and the state of the environment. This allowed us to identify conditions that favor the spread versus decline of cognitive control.” http://behavioralscientist.org/rise-fall-cognitive-control/
Reasoning, problem-solving, symbolic language, planningthese faculties are fundamental to virtually all of our individual and societal accomplishments.
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