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Patricia Rich^1,2, Mark Blokpoel³, Ronald de Haan⁴

¹Philosophy Department, University of Hamburg.

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Summary

Explaining tractable cognition is challenging. Proposed solutions like Resource-Rationality, Adaptive Toolbox, and Massive Modularity relocate this challenge to evolution, not resolving it.

Keywords:

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Cognitive Science
Evolutionary Psychology
Philosophy of Mind

Background:

Classical rationality models face intractability issues due to optimization and domain generality assumptions.
Cognitive science seeks tractable explanations for cognitive processes.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze three prominent non-classical proposals for tractable cognition: Resource-Rationality, Adaptive Toolbox, and Massive Modularity.
To determine if these proposals effectively resolve the intractability challenge or merely relocate it.

Main Methods:

Conceptual analysis of Resource-Rationality, Adaptive Toolbox theory, and Massive Modularity.
Examination of how these theories shift the explanation of tractability from cognitive to evolutionary levels.

Main Results:

The study demonstrates that Resource-Rationality, Adaptive Toolbox, and Massive Modularity do not solve the intractability problem.
These theories relocate the intractability challenge from the cognitive to the evolutionary level.
Non-classical accounts currently lack a decisive advantage in addressing evolutionary-level intractability.

Conclusions:

The intractability of cognition remains a significant challenge, even with non-classical approaches.
Evolutionary explanations for cognitive architecture do not inherently resolve the problem of computational tractability.
Further research is needed to establish the superiority of non-classical cognitive theories on the evolutionary playing field.