Why Imaginary Worlds? The psychological foundations and cultural evolution of fictions with imaginary worlds
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2021. [All Versions]. Imaginary worlds are extremely successful. The most popular fictions produced in the last few decades contain such a fictional world. They can be found in all fictional media, from novels (e.g., Lord of The Rings and Harry…
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Imagination and the generation of new ideas sciencedirect.com
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How We Know What Not To Think sciencedirect.com
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2019. [All Versions]. Humans often represent and reason about unrealized possible actions---the vast infinity of things that were not (or have not yet been) chosen. This capacity is central to the most impressive of human abilities: causal…
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Deutsch. The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications daviddeutsch.org.uk
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Abductive Cognition: The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning link.springer.com
Springer, 2009. [All Versions]. Most philosophers of science in the twentieth century have concluded that no logic of creative processes exists and, moreover, that a rational model of discovery is impossible. In short, scientific creative inferences are irrational and there is…
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AGI & CoCoSci › Papers > Abduction > Rationalization: “Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2021. [All Versions]. Imaginary worlds are extremely successful. The most popular fictions produced in the last few decades contain such a fictional world. They can be found in all fictional media, from novels (e.g., Lord of The Rings and Harry…”