The paper offers a partial vindication of Sterelny’s view on the role of error rates and reliability in his theory of decoupled representation based on modelling techniques borrowed from the biological literature on evolution in stochastic environments. In the case of a tight link between tracking states and behaviour, I argue that in its full generality Sterelny’s account instantiates the base-rate fallacy. With regard to non-tightly linked behaviour, I show that Sterelny’s account can be vindicated subject to an adequate evolutionary model and a suitable notion of reliability.

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错误管理、可靠性和认知进化

该论文部分证明了 Sterelny 在他的解耦表示理论中错误率和可靠性的作用的观点，该理论基于从关于随机环境中进化的生物学文献中借用的建模技术。在跟踪状态和行为之间存在紧密联系的情况下，我认为在其完整的一般性上，Sterelny 的描述实例化了基本利率谬误。关于非紧密联系的行为，我表明可以根据适当的进化模型和适当的可靠性概念来证明 Sterelny 的说法是正确的。