Analogies for Sustainable Development/All learning as transfer of learning

Living organisms need to make decisions all the time and take a view on what will happen next. The only course available is to learn as many of the world’s regularities as we can, and allow them to guide our decision making. There is simply no alternative.

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Valiant (2013) :

''“Humans, and biological systems generally, do have an impressive capability to make predictions. The ability of living organisms to survive each day in this dangerous world is surely evidence of an ability to predict the consequences of their actions and those of others, and to be prepared for whatever happens, and be rarely taken totally by surprise. In human terms, the fact that we can go through a typical day, one that may include many events and interactions with others, and be seldom surprised is testament surely of our good predictive talents.”''

''“Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Living organisms, however, need to make decisions all the time and take a view on what will happen next. The only course available is to learn as many of the world’s regularities as we can, and allow them to guide our decision making. There is simply no alternative”''