Maintaining Homeostasis by Decision-Making

Maintaining Homeostasis by Decision-Making

Living organisms need to maintain energetic homeostasis. For many species, this implies taking actions with delayed consequences. For example, humans may have to decide between foraging for high-calorie but hard-to-get, and low-calorie but easy-to-get food, under threat of starvation. Homeostatic principles prescribe decisions that maximize the probability of sustaining appropriate energy level...

Interoceptive inference: homeostasis and decision-making.

Body In a recent article in TICS [1], Seth makes the compelling claim that interoceptive inference (i.e., the approximate Bayesian inference about internal bodily states) underlies body ownership and selfhood. In this letter, we argue that the significance of interoceptive inference extends beyond this. In particular, we emphasise the role of interoceptive inference in both homeostasis and allo...

Decision-making by Children

In this paper, we examine the determinants of decision-making power by children and young adolescents. Moving beyond previous economic models that treat children as goods consumed by adults, we develop a noncooperative model of parental control of child behavior and child resistance. Using child reports of decision-making and psychological and cognitive measures from the NLSY79 Child Supplement...

The Use of Evidence by Decision-Making Committees

Lung Cancer Treatment Decision-Making by Descriptive Decision-Making Framework

The need of shared decision-making has been discussed by researchers since last few decades and is being practiced in several fields. Medical field is also experiencing its consequent positive impact. Keeping this ongoing trend in mind, this paper proposes a theory-based approach of descriptive decision-making (DM) under the realm of uncertainty along with its application to DM of treatment alt...