An argument for ignorance-based chance discovery
Lorenzo Magnani, Selene Arfini, Tommaso Bertolotti · International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms · 2016
The human part of chance-discovery is usually analysed as an effect of the agent’s knowledge of herself and of her environment. In this paper, setting off from the importance of ‘understanding the meaning of an impending phenomenon as a chance’, we will analyse how chance-discovery activities are affected and driven by the agent’s ignorance, and the relationship she entertains with the latter. More specifically, we will spell out two kinds of ignorance that are relevant for chance-discovery, also considering which adductive chance-discovery processes they can be related to.