The Mind under the Axioms

A conclusive remark: decision theory and the transition from the unconscious to the conscious

Abstract

We conclude by characterizing the main differences of our approach, in this book, with a more standard behavioral decision-theoretical approach. The latter, in our terms, parametrizes psychological factors and behavioral biases but does not essentially modify the idea that an individual blindly or mindlessly applies the behavioral program of the concerned model. In our approach, we have differently insisted on the fact that the individual can become lucid about the psychological implications of a decision-theoretical model, that a decision-theoretical model formalizes implicit psychological and phenomenologically accessible structures, and that ...