- Thursday 13th, no session, transferred on 14th.
- Friday 14th, 2-6 pm, Ana Dreber : Experimental methods for studying cooperation
We will draw links between information transfers and the emergence of cooperation. We will discuss how these information transfers can be studied experimentaly in humans, in classical game theory settings.
- Thursday 20th, 4-6pm, Dusan Misevic : artificial life studies, evolution of digital information
We will discuss the use of artificial life systems and models, how they consider “information” and even question classical notion of information that genetics may hold.
- Thursday 27th, 4-6pm, Julien Benard-Capelle, evolution of writing
We will discuss how “symbols” may evolve while being copied and transferred, on short term as well as on long term. This may help understand the evolution of writing abilities in humans.
- Thursday 4th of December, 4-6pm, François Taddei, evolution of printing.
We will discuss how storing information in printed books has brought a whole revolution in european societies centuries ago. We will discuss whever this revolution due to storage of information is unique or can echo other kind of information storage in living systems. See the information age and the pinting press : looking back to see ahead (James Dewar) http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2005/P8014.pdf. <http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2005/P8014.pdf.%20>
- Thursday 11th, 4-6pm, Julia Taddei, economics of information.
We will discuss how economics handle the information concept, bringing usefull tools to study its dynamics in terms of cost and benefits, quite close to the way evolutionary handles the concept.
See Stiglitz on information (Nobel laureate) : http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Information.html
All sessions will be held at CRI. http://www.cri-paris.org/en/accueil-cri/informations-pratiques/
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