Satisficing as competitive Bayesian weighting: a minimal model of goal-directed choice under an unattained target
Animals and humans often do not maximize; they act relative to goals (aspiration levels) that are frequently not yet met. How can a goal that is not (yet) realized organize choice? Deacon (2012) calls such absence-referenced organization \emph{ententional}, and García-Valdecasas and Deacon (2024) argue that ends are best understood as constraints rather than as particular states. We examine this…
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