A little map of the cognitive vulnerabilities of the human’s bounded rationality to guide us through the Era of the Disenchanted Internet
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https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2022i25p9-49Keywords:
cognitive bias, bounded rationality, disinformation, disenchanted internetAbstract
The main argument of this brief essay is that we are beginning to experience the Era of the Disenchanted Internet and the general perception that marks this disenchantment is the result of a remarkable convergence between two factors: 1) the nocive effects of the digital world, especially in politics; 2) a “non-idealized” representation of the human rationality that has been constructed in the last fifty years in a diversified scientific field that deals with the brain and mind. The aim of this essay is to point out how the contemporary scientific studies have been developing a more descriptive (less normative/idealized) image of the human rationality and it has opened space for a more detailed understanding of how the cognitive vulnerabilities can be (and has been) explored in the digital environment.
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