Repository | Book | Chapter
(2015) Patterns of rationality, Dordrecht, Springer.
The crises of techo-cognitive niches
from maladaptive to terminator niches
Tommaso Bertolotti
pp. 171-187
The aim of this chapter is to analyze in full detail a concept I merely introduced at the end of the previous Chap. 8, that is the possibility of a Terminator Niche. The concept of terminator niche should intuitively represent a cognitive niche that instead of benefitting its users with a decreased local selective pressure, has eventually a negative impact on the population's welfare. I will specify this concept along the chapter, first characterizing the specificity of techo-cognitive niche construction, then showing how some maladaptive niches can be individuated in human beings' evolutionary past. Finally I will properly consider the techno-cognitive terminator niche and elaborate upon two relevant cases.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-17786-1_9
Full citation:
Bertolotti, T. (2015). The crises of techo-cognitive niches: from maladaptive to terminator niches, in Patterns of rationality, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 171-187.
This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.