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A cognitive version of self-monitoring enables the agent, as noted to inferentially simulate a potential action-outcome sequence ahead of time and observe it -- as if it were an actual action-outcome sequence -- and then evaluate the imagined outcome. This process creates more thoughtful decision making through the precorrection of errors. (Dennett [1995] calls it Popperian learning en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability because failure means that my hypothesis ‘dies’, not me.) for example, consider a squirrel on one tree branch gearing up to jump to another. One can see the muscle preparing,, but in some cases the squirrel decides the leap is too far and so, after feigning some jumps, climbs down the trunk and then back up the other branch. The more straightforward description of this event is that the squirrel is observing and evaluating a simulation of what it would experience if it leaped; for example, it would experience missing the branch and falling -- a decidedly negative outcome. The squirrel must then use that simulation to make a decision about whether to actually leap. Okrent (2007) holds that imagining the possible outcome of different behavioral choices ahead of time, and then evaluating and deciding for the one with the best imagined outcome, is the essence of instrumental rationality. ~ Page 14
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