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In section 2.5, I argued that the mechanism for de-biasing rationality is not furnished at an individual but at a eco-cognitive level. As a matter of fact, a great amount of knowledge and information is stored in cognitive niches in the form of artifacts, institutions, habits and so on. The question is, which socio-cognitive attitudes exhibited by the single human being favor the distribution of cognition and thus the de-biasing of rationality? This chapter will introduce the notion of docility as the attitude supporting and facilitating cognitive cooperation.
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Bardone, E. (2011). The Notion of Docility: The Social Dimension of Distributing Cognition. In: Seeking Chances. Cognitive Systems Monographs, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19633-1_5
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