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    The environment relevant to rational choice extends beyon... — Carmelics
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    The environment relevant to rational choice extends beyond the external world and may include physiological and psychological limitations of the organism itself.

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    • 1.Some constraints that must be taken as givens in an optimization problem are physiological and psychological limitations of the biological organism itself.
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    • 2.The maximum speed at which an organism can move establishes a boundary on the set of its available behavior alternatives.
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    • 3.Limits on computational capacity may be important constraints entering into the definition of rational choice under particular circumstances.
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    • 1.Rational choice is normatively defined by logical consistency and preference satisfaction, not by descriptive facts about biological organisms.
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    • 2.Incorporating physiological limits into rationality's definition conflates the conditions for achieving rationality with rationality itself.
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    • 3.Savage's expected utility framework and von Neumann-Morgenstern axioms deliberately abstract from implementation constraints to preserve action-guiding universality.
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    • 1.Dennett's intentional stance analysis shows that rational agency is attributed at the level of belief-desire explanation, not sub-personal physiological mechanism.
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    • 2.Once physiological constraints are admitted as constitutive of rational environments, no principled boundary prevents cellular metabolism or quantum noise from becoming rationality-relevant, generating explanatory regress.
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    we must be prepared to accept the possibility that what we call “the environment” may lie, in part, within the skin of the biological organisms. That is, some of the constraints that must be taken as givens in an optimization problem may be physiological and psychological limitations of the organism (biologically defined) itself. For example, the maximum speed at which an organism can move establishes a boundary on the set of its available behavior alternatives. Similarly, limits on computationa
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