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Selecting Chance Curation Strategies: Is Chance Curation Related to the Richness of a Cognitive Niche?

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  • Lorenzo Magnani

    (Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, and Computational Philosophy Laboratory, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, & Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China)

  • Tommaso Bertolotti

    (Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, and Computational Philosophy Laboratory, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to tackle the following issue: as it is renown that chances can be faked, it seems intuitive to think that the inhibition of chance-faking contexts is a good activity of chance curation. Yet, could this activity sometimes be counterproductive? The question will be answered positively considering the case of bullshit as a case of fake chances, but also as a fertile ground for learning and developing intuitions. Ultimately, this paper will argue that the peculiar context, that is the cognitive niche supporting the (potentially) fake chances, is the discriminating factor: indeed, a rich cognitive niche may benefit from certain kind of fake chances – which should therefore not be inhibited – whereas a poorer niche might not benefit from this situation, and therefore the preclusion of fake chances is an act of chance curation in those contexts.

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  • Lorenzo Magnani & Tommaso Bertolotti, 2013. "Selecting Chance Curation Strategies: Is Chance Curation Related to the Richness of a Cognitive Niche?," International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science (IJKSS), IGI Global, vol. 4(1), pages 50-61, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jkss00:v:4:y:2013:i:1:p:50-61
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