How the Least Effort Principle governs human reasoning and behaviour

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Gries, Werner Hugo

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This is Essay 4 of the Collection of 'Essays on Cognitive Physical Science' in the repository UPSpace of the University of Pretoria.
Essay 4 is the first of a number of essays focussing on certain key aspects of the author's model of mind, first described in Essay 3 (hdl.handle.net/2236/50310) and again in updated - and currently only relevant - form in Essay 3.1 (hdl.handle.net/2236/58202). The Least Effort Principle is a key aspect of prime importance of the model of mind and is the main theme of Essay 4.

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Authorities, Brain language, Collateral Learning Principle, Collateral priming, Complex dynamic system, Consciousness, Core hypothesis, Direct-Access-Storage hypothesis, Emergent property, Fabulating, Genius, Groupthink, Hierarchic architecture of nature, Information module, Kahneman, Knowledge module, Knowledge Priming, Law, Least Effort Principle (LEP), Least Mental Stress Principle, Modular Mental Structure Model, Opinion-beats-facts phenomenon, Priming, Private paradigm, Quantum consciousness, Quantum mind, Self, Self-righteousness of mind, Thought sharing, Threshold Hypothesis of Consciousness, von Neumann, Wigner postulate

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Gries, WH 2016, 'How the Least Effort Principle governs human reasoning and behaviour', Essays on Cognitive Physical Science, Essay 4, pp. 1-28.