3. Individual fallibility: limits to rationality

Understanding the structural limits described in the previous sections enables us to identify a first series of weaknesses, but it is also necessary in order to study the limits of our rationality. In fact, our deliberative processes emerge from the basis of situational awareness, which in turn emerges in relation to the information we perceive and the information available in our memory (with varying degrees of accuracy in the case of both the former and the latter, as we have just seen).