Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2013-2014)
Time: Friday Apr. 4, 14h-16h Place: *room D.1.07* ------------------------------ Memes as mental frames and cognitive templates <[email protected]> *Øyvind Vada <http://memetor.com/oyvind-vada/>* (Memetor, ECCO) Abstract: Is it possible to design for desired emergence within and between agents in social systems? Agents are carriers of preconceived knowledge. They cannot foresee all effects of their behaviour based on this knowledge, and are thus operating on a bounded rationality. My ambition is to show how knowledge agents can interpret predefined heuristic memes represented as icons. This in turn influences how agents perceive and process their contexts and tasks at hand both individually and collectively. This approach balances a designed and planned approach to steering and coordination with emergent factors that are always present when human agency takes place. ------------------------------ *Extra seminar:* I would also like to draw your attention to a last-minute seminar, this afternoon from 16h until 18h. The topic is *"Why fish already form a global brain". *More info at http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/228 ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *Apr. 11 * Pierre Collet (Strasbourg University) *Personalised Open Education for the Masses (POEM)* *Apr. 18 * Jeffrey Johnson (room D.1.08!) *Apr. 25 * Safwat Ibrahim *May 2 * Mixel Kiemen (ECCO, GBI) *May 9 * Cliff Joslyn *May 16 * Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich) *Programming the Global Brain - Implications for Computer Science* *May 23 * Shima Beigi *A generic framework for resilience of complex adaptive systems* *May 30* Mehdi Moussaid (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) *Social influence and collective opinion dynamics* *June 13* Alfonso Molina *June 20 * Piet Holbrouck (ECCO) *Problem Solving and Paradigm Shifts* *June 27* Viktoras Veitas & David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) (ECCO,GBI) See also the ECCO/GBI calendar<https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers<http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
