Niclas Sandström, Emilia Leppälä, Antti Jekunen, Mikael Johansson, Heidi Andersén
Role of patient characteristics in adherence to first-line treatment guidelines in breast, lung and prostate cancer: insights from the Nordic healthcare system
BMJ open
open question regarding people develop models world new candidates generated consideration infinitely many possibilities discuss role evolutionary mechanisms play process specifically argue comes developing global world model innovation necessarily incremental involving generation selection among random local mutations recombinations parts ones current model argue narrowing guiding exploration feature cognitive search allows human learners discover better theories without ever grappling directly problem finding global optimum best possible world model suggest aspect cognitive processing works analogously blind variation selection mechanisms drive biological evolution propose algorithms developed program synthesis provide candidate mechanisms human minds might achieve discuss objections implications perspective finally suggesting better processlevel understanding humans incrementally explore compositional theory spaces shed light think provide explanatory traction fundamental cognitive biases including anchoring probability matching confirmation bias