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

Lorenzo Magnani and Tommaso Bertolotti
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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

International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science (IJKSS), 2013, vol. 4, issue 1, 50-61

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.

Date: 2013
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