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    The claim presupposes a view-from-nowhere standard of opt... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Bounded cognitive agents may fail to identify strategies that are optimal in the long run because their limited information processing prevents them from perceiving the longer time horizon.

    The claim presupposes a view-from-nowhere standard of optimality that is itself computationally inaccessible, rendering 'optimal long-run strategy' an incoherent benchmark against which to measure bounded agents.

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    Presupposes(as describing what Plantinga's argument takes for granted)
    Assumes something to be true without proving it—like how an argument might presuppose that logic works, without first arguing that logic is valid.
    bounded agents(Game-theoretic and social interaction modeling)
    Cognitive agents whose information processing is limited in both memory and reasoning capacity, preventing full representation of the game or end-to-end reasoning.
    computationally inaccessible(as used in philosophy of mind and computational theory)
    Impossible for any actual computer (or brain) to figure out or calculate, even theoretically.
    incoherent benchmark(as used in epistemology and logic)
    A measuring standard that doesn't make sense or is impossible to actually use meaningfully.
    standard of optimality

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    (as used in decision theory and ethics)
    A measuring stick or criterion for what counts as the best possible outcome or solution.
    view-from-nowhere(as used in epistemology and philosophy of science)
    An imagined perspective that stands outside all personal bias or limitations, seeing reality exactly as it is independent of any individual observer.

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