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Abstract Veissière and collaborators ground their account of culture and social norms in the free-energy principle, which postulates that the utility (or adaptive value) of an outcome is equivalent to… Click to show full abstract
Abstract Veissière and collaborators ground their account of culture and social norms in the free-energy principle, which postulates that the utility (or adaptive value) of an outcome is equivalent to its probability. This equivalence would mean that their account entails that complying with social norms has always adaptive value. But, this is false, because many social norms are obviously maladaptive.
Keywords:
free energy;
social norms;
energy principle;
maladaptive social
Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2020
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Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2020
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