Introducing an Invisible Feature of Human Experience Into Naturalistic Decision Making Explanations

Abstract

Despite their intentioned focus on process, macrocognitive models run the risk of advancing a perspective on human behavior that can be called “composite/constraints”—that is, the various, long-prevailing views that people are nothing but composites of factors and variables who behave according to their particular makeup and/or their circumstances. The perspective neglects a key feature of the human experience, primarily because it is mostly invisible to both the researcher and their participants. This paper introduces this invisible feature and explores its integration with a core macrocognitive model, Klein’s Recognition-Primed Decision model. It also suggests implications of this analysis for the theoretical and methodological concerns of the NDM paradigm, applications of NDM models, and for an understanding of artificial general intelligence.

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naturalistic decision making recognition-primed decision model macrocognition self soliloquy

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