This builds on naturalistic decision theory in particular the experimental and observational work of Gary Klein (1994) now validated by neuroscience, that the basis of human decision is a first fit pattern matching with past experience or extrapolated possible experience
Humans see the world both visually and conceptually as a series of spot observations and they fill in the gaps from previous experience, either personal or narrative in nature
Interviewed they will rationalize the decision in whatever is acceptable to the society to which they belong: “a tree spirit spoke to me” and “I made a rational decision having considered all the available facts” have the same relationship to reality