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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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