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On our journey in search of the adaptive biases, we shall encounter Ulysses and the Sirens and other long-suffering heroes, along with Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the experience of multiple selves, not to mention the seven dwarves and other instances of the magical number seven. We shall eventually step ashore with a host of inherited problem-solving devices that can be put to work like a Swiss army knife to cope with the plethora of choices that face us on a daily basis.
Throughout our journey into the biased mind, two ideas in particular—that the brain is a partly outdated survival tool kit and that there are limitations on its capacity—will prove to be major recurring themes.
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Boutang, J., Lara, M. (2016). Embarking On the Mind Tour. In: The Biased Mind. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16519-6_2
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