[CS] Fwd: Cognitive and Brain Science talk - October 24

[Lisa Karlin]

Lisa Karlin
School of Cognitive Science
Hampshire College
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
Phone: 413-559-5502
Fax:  413-559-5438



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Subject: 	Cognitive and Brain Science talk - October 24
Date: 	Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:40:39 +0000
From: 	Salvato, Teresa M <Teresa.Salvato at tufts.edu>



Dear Colleagues, Please share this announcement with your faculty and 
students:

The Cognitive Science Colloquium presents a talk by

Dr. Simon De Deo

Monday, October 24th, 3pm, Cohen Auditorium 
(http://campusmaps.tufts.edu/medford/)

"Major Transitions in Political Order"

Abstract: We present three major transitions that occur on the way
to the elaborate and diverse societies of the modern era. Our account
links the worlds of social animals such as pigtail macaques and monk
parakeets to examples from human history, including 18th Century
London and the contemporary online phenomenon of Wikipedia. From the
first awareness and use of group-level social facts to the emergence
of norms and their self-assembly into normative bundles, each
transition represents a new relationship between the individual and
the group. At the center of this relationship is the use of
coarse-grained information gained via lossy compression. The role of
top-down causation in the origin of society parallels that conjectured
to occur in the origin and evolution of life itself.

Simon DeDeo (http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/sdedeo/) runs the Laboratory
for Social Minds at Indiana University, where he is a professor of 
complex systems
and cognitive science. He is also on the external faculty of the Santa 
Fe Institute (SFI).

For more information: http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/index.html


/Teresa /

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Teresa Salvato, Program Coordinator

Center for Cognitive Studies

115 Miner Hall

Tufts University

Medford, MA 02155

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