Elisabetta Lalumera posted a comment with an interesting question:
“What is cognitive economy? Sometimes philosophers and psychologists evaluate proposals on the graounds that they fare well/bad at cognitive economy (e.g. on-the-fly concept views, like Barsalou’s, would avoid the storage cost of concepts in semantic memory, etc.).”
“Any suggestion about what to look at to see whether cognitive economy is a myth or not?”
Cognitive Economy
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I always assumed that “economy” in “cognitive economy” was short for “functional organization”.
I wonder if we can view “cognitive economy” as the metabolic trade offs or information costs undergone evry time our “mind/brain functions perform a computational operation.