{"title":"Equity, equality, and egalitarianism: A context-dependent framework for resource allocation.","authors":"Xiaoya Huang, Tyler Parker-Rollins, Xian Zhao","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X26105937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26105937","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We argue that the differences between process-based and outcome-based egalitarianism correspond to the distinction between equity and equality as principles of resource allocation. By outlining the limitations of relying solely on a process-based definition of egalitarianism, we propose that egalitarianism is context-dependent and varies across socio-ecological settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e433"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149103675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A problem facing process-egalitarianism: Why do individuals surrender autonomy to political community?","authors":"Elias L Khalil","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X26105743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26105743","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This comment accepts the distinction that Duncan Stibbard-Hawkes and Chris von Rueden make: the difference between process-egalitarianism and outcome-egalitarianism. It also accepts that most historical societies care more about process- than outcome-egalitarianism. However, a question remains. If people care about process-egalitarianism, how come they are ready to surrender autonomy - i.e., ability to make decisions of their own - to a political community?</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e435"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149103616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metabolism, medium dependence, and the physicality of information processing.","authors":"Wiktor Rorot, Urte Laukaityte, David J Harrison","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X26106207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26106207","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The target article underscores that metabolic considerations can accommodate the standard functionalist account of cognition. However, the energetic makeup of (biological) information processing systems in fact supports the claim of medium dependence of cognitive capacities. We explore two case studies from active matter physics and basal cognition to highlight the philosophical implications of the physicality of information processing.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e475"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149103721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why metabolism remains implicit in cognitive models.","authors":"Kacper Kondrakiewicz, Pedro J Gonçalves","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X26106177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26106177","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Explicitly modeling metabolic constraints remains rare in cognitive neuroscience due to methodological, empirical, and conceptual challenges. Although metabolic limits already shape the biological data that many models are fitted to, direct measurements of energetic costs remain scarce and difficult to relate to model variables. We argue that recent experimental and computational advances may soon enable more explicit integration of metabolism into cognitive models.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e467"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149103780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiscale dynamical considerations for modeling (biological) cognition.","authors":"Luis H Favela","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X26106268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26106268","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Haueis and Colaço argue cognition must be modeled with metabolic constraints, challenging more abstract, computational views. This commentary supports their approach but identifies a key omission: multiscale dynamics. Cognition is fundamentally dynamic, emerging across coordinated timescales where metabolism is embedded, not merely constraining. Incorporating multiscale dynamics would strengthen their framework by aligning models with biologically realistic, time-dependent processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e459"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149103794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Not every model in cognitive science is (or should be) mechanistic.","authors":"Danielle J Williams","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X26106104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26106104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Haueis and Colaço (H&C) label all models as cognitive. However, just because cognitive science is so-called doesn't mean that all models are. When type differences are ignored, an argument runs the risk of prescribing a monist modeling strategy. In their case: mechanistic. Such a prescription is empirically inadequate and overly restrictive, as modeling in cognitive science relies on many modeling types.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e482"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149103804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Egalitarian for whom? Gender, dependency, and process-first egalitarianism.","authors":"Konrad Szocik","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X26105846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26105846","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article argues that process-first theories of egalitarianism remain incomplete without a feminist account of gender, dependency, and bodily vulnerability. Practices that limit domination may flatten hierarchies mainly among men while leaving unequal burdens of care, reproduction, and coercion intact. Egalitarianism should therefore be assessed not only by process but also by who bears its hidden social costs.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e447"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149103634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Egalitarianism is not equality: Extending process-based approaches through culture, identity, and power.","authors":"Anam Elahi","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X26106001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26106001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This commentary supports the shift from outcome-based to process-based understandings of egalitarianism. However, it argues that focusing on intragroup mechanisms alone is insufficient. Drawing on social identity theory, cultural orientation, and structural inequality, it suggests that intergroup dynamics and broader power structures constrain egalitarian outcomes, helping explain why processes that regulate inequality rarely produce equality in more complex societies.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e428"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149103694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Humans are not naturally egalitarian.","authors":"Robin Hanson","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X26105767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26105767","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humans have no general egalitarian moral norm. Ancient humans varyingly adopted eight practices, each of which tended to cut a few kinds of inequality. But individuals did not do these mainly to cut inequality, and the recent fading of such practices suggests that they are no longer as adaptive as they once were.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e431"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149103692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond energy: Expanding metabolic considerations in cognitive modeling.","authors":"Angeles Garcia-Cazorla, Fanny Mochel","doi":"10.1017/S0140525X26106311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26106311","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Integrating metabolism into cognitive science is essential. Beyond a mere constraint, metabolism may be constitutive of cognition itself. This requires expanding metabolism beyond neuronal energy use to include glial contributions, compartmentalized and dynamic processes, and broader brain-body interactions (e.g., interoception). Capturing this complexity will require more refined, integrative models, potentially leveraging artificial intelligence to unify multiscale biological data.</p>","PeriodicalId":8698,"journal":{"name":"Behavioral and Brain Sciences","volume":"49 ","pages":"e461"},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149103637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}