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Brian Skyrms' study of ideas of cooperation and collective action explores the implications of a prototypical story found in Rousseau's A Discourse on Inequality. It is therein that Rousseau contrasts the pay-off of hunting hare (where the risk of non-cooperation is small and the reward equally small) against the pay-off of hunting the stag (where maximum cooperation is required but the reward is much greater.) Thus, rational agents are pulled in one direction by considerations of risk and in another by considerations of mutual benefit. Written with Skyrms' characteristic clarity and verve, The Stage Hunt will be eagerly sought by readers who enjoyed his earlier work Evolution of the Social Contract. Brian Skyrms, distinguished Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and Economics at the University of California at Irvine and director of its interdisciplinary program in history and philosophy of science, has published widely in the areas of inductive logic, decision theory, rational deliberation and causality. Seminal works include Evolution of the Social Contract (Cambridge, 1996), The Dynamics of Rational Deliberation (Harvard, 1990), Pragmatics and Empiricism (Yale, 1984), and Causal Necessity (Yale, 1980).
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JUNKIE BUSINESS is the result of an intensive three-year ethnographic study of the formation and eventual demise of a heroin dealing network in Denver. While earlier books have dealt with marijuana dealers and cocaine dealers, this will be the first study ever to provide an "insider's perspective" on the business of dealing heroin.
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- Decade Ahead of His Time--Absolutely Brilliant
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Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization
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The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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Decade Ahead of His Time--Absolutely Brilliant.......2000-04-08
Kevin, a WIRED Magazine editor who spoke, with Stewart Brand, at OSS '94, has produced what I regard as one of the top five books of this decade. A very tough read but worth the effort. I had not understood the entire theory of co-evolution developed by Stewart Brand and represented in the Co-Evolution Quarterly and The Whole Earth until I read this book. Kevin introduces the concept of the "hive mind", addresses how biological systems handle complexity, moves over into industrial ecology and network economics, and concludes with many inspiring reflections on the convergence of biological and technical systems. He was easily a decade if not two ahead of his time.
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Taken from a special issue of the journal Mathematical Sociology, Evolution of Social Networks answers the question of whether we can apply evolutionary theories to our understanding of the development of social structures. Social life emerges as soon as persons establish relations with each other. Regardless of the specific social processes, these relations evolve into networks with coherent structures, structures that provide some actors with opportunities for action while impeding the progress of others.
Social networks have increasingly become the focus of many social scientists as a way of analyzing these social structures. While many powerful network analytic tools have been developed and applied to a wide range of empirical phenomena, understanding the evolution of social organization still requires theories and analyses of social network evolutionary processes. Researchers from a variety of disciplines have combined their efforts in what is an indication of some very promis
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perhaps apply ideas to social networking startups?.......2005-03-05
In light of all the recent startups in the social networking field, this book offers a sober and scholarly assessment of the main concepts. Written by scientists, and for scientists, it avoids the hype promulgated by various websites like Ryze, Friendster and LinkedIn.
The book studies what we might, perhaps, be able to learn from a close analysis of social dynamics. The treatment is heavily mathematical, and is not for a casual reader. It should be noted that any insights that might be extracted from the book, and applied in a website, may not be protected by a patent filing. Since the book constitutes a public dissemination of its ideas. So such insights unfortunately have little protection.
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- The Next Stage of Human Evolution?
- Good book, same 'arena' as Singularity is Near crowd
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Neurosphere: The Convergence of Evolution, Group Mind, and the Internet
Donald P. Dulchinos
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According to Donald Dulchinos, the real action on the Internet isn't in the realm of commerce. It is, plain and simple, in the realm of religion. But not exactly that old-time religion. This book is about the spiritual impact of our increasing ability to communicate quickly and with enhanced evolution. It's about our search for meaning, our hunger for a glimpse at humanity's future development in which—frighteningly or excitingly—the trend is clearly toward increasing integration of telecommunications and information technology with the body itself. Electronic prosthetics, direct neural implants, and the brain's control of electronic and mechanical limbs move the boundary that used to exist between human and machine to some undefined frontier inside our bodies, our brains, and, perhaps, our minds.
Dulchinos traces ideas of evolution, anthropology, biology, and theology—all of which point toward a betterment, a unity—and argues cogently that these ideas find their embodiment in the technology of the World Wide Web. Neurosphere or God or Group Mind—call it what you will—is about technology and the mechanics of unity.
Although other books on new technology and new consciousness touch on many of the ideas in Neurosphere, none do so in quite such a straightforward, logical way. Dulchinos has a way of telling personal stories that make the technical accessible to the dreamer, the spiritual comprehensible to the skeptic, and the future of body technology less fear-inducing to everyone.
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The Next Stage of Human Evolution?.......2007-02-14
For over a century, scientists and seers around the world have suspected that our species is approaching the cusp of another great change. This feeling has been growing and becoming more insistent, and seems to be quite different from the more familiar millennial myths or general despair about the state of the world.
In India Sri Aurobindo wrote volumes about the future evolution of not just individuals, but humanity as a whole. Meanwhile in the West, the French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin spoke about the "noosphere" - a sphere of human thought - and his vision of humanity evolving toward the Omega Point. De Chardin envisioned a "single thinking envelop" surrounding the earth. He saw it as a kind of living intelligence comprised of the minds of all sentient beings.
The author of this book, Donald Dulchinos, has spent the last fifteen years or so working in various aspects of cable television. He was also one of the early and long-time participants in the Well, one of the first virtual online communities. In this fascinating book he says that he firmly believes that the Internet is fostering a global consciousness in humanity, akin to a spiritual awakening. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Marshall McLuhan began to use the term the "global village," by which he meant the psychological and social consequences of technologies, and most particularly radio and television. By the early 1980s a number of people began to speculate that communication technologies might provide the catalysts for the emergence of some kind of "group consciousness," which would turn us gradually from egocentric to geo-centric thinking.
Over the years, as the technology and our interconnectedness has leapt forward, many have continued to express this view, but few as comprehensively or eloquently as Donald Dulchinos in this book. By a strange "coincidence" he and I were writing about the same thing at the same time. And I am sure that we were not the only ones: that really suggests that there is here an important truth that many of us have been picking up on.
This book continues the discussion, supplying a range of examples from the digital revolution to buttress his central idea that the Internet is "rapidly becoming the central nervous system of a collective intelligence, a global brain, a giant leap forward in evolution."
The book covers a lot, from the author's own experiences of deeply meaningful interactions with others in online discussion groups, to the much less mundane topics such as mystical experiences, parapsychology and the perennial favorite of science fiction writers: the possibility of uploading consciousness into a computer.
I liked the book, although I am not sure that I can agree with his rather reductionist view of human beings: I am sure that we are more than just electrons whizzing around. And if the thesis is correct, and the Internet is providing the infrastructure for a leap forward in consciousness, then would we not expect it to be an emergent consciousness, rather than one composed of electrons, bits and bytes?
I think that he is on to something, and If he is right, then we would expect that unless we succeed in changing ourselves, this new global consciousness would carry with it all the monsters that continue to lurk in our subconscious and unconscious minds.
Though not a long book, it is thought provoking and should be of interest to anyone curious about the evolution of our species and what we can do to try and help nudge it in a more peaceful, cooperative and compassionate direction.
Good book, same 'arena' as Singularity is Near crowd.......2006-07-12
The first few chapters of the book are really good, then it gets sidetracked into material not so interesting. The end of the book goes off into some interesting areas. The author always brings the topics, no matter if they went tangential, back to the common theme.
Wither we are going..........2005-11-06
This is book for anyone interested in Big Questions. What is the difference between brain and mind? What is the connection betwixt thought and neuro-electric activity? If we descend from spirit into matter, what coalesces from the immaterial into the physical? Or, if consciousness is the product of some evolutionary trajectory, what structures hold evanescent experience in the body? What is the ultimate ground of our being, and are we approaching interconnectivity in it through computer groupmind? Using Teilhard de Chardin's concepts of spiritual evolution as a springboard, Mr. Dulchinos dives into the marginally-charted waters of the interface of mind and computer, and our increasingly shared experience of the internet. He lucidly explores both anomaly and trend, edgy science and history of how we got here. Clearly Mr. Dulchinos is a thinker, and we need more of his kind of projection to counter the prevailing corporate myopia. Read this book and think for yourself.
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The New Telecommunications: A Political Economy of Network Evolution
Robin Mansell
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The dynamics of change in the electronic communication environment are examined in this broad-ranging analysis. Robin Mansell's study encompasses the political, economic and technical factors contributing to the future of telecommunication networks. It explores the consequences of policy decisions and design choices in the creation of intelligent networks. At the same time, the author demonstrates how both policies and technical aspects are themselves shaped by actors in the telecommunications sector.
Outlining developments in the industry in the late 1980s and 1990s in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Sweden, the author shows how new technical, institutional and market arrangements are reshaping the terms and conditions of network access, with ultimate effects on participation in the `networked economy'.
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Neural network theory is shaking up fields as disparate as philosophy and ecology: the paradigm shift is here. The second edition of Connectionism and the Mind: Parallel Processing, Dynamics, and Evolution in Networks has been rewritten and restructured to accommodate the profound changes wrought during the '90s burst of research in the field. Authors William Bechtel and Adele Abrahamsen present their material clearly and accessibly, asking of their readers only a familiarity with algebra and formal logic. Covering the basics of representation, architecture, and rules, they move on to deep and exciting questions about connectionism's implications for artificial intelligence and neuroscience--thought-provoking reading for nearly everyone. The text is stimulating and offers hundreds of routes to further study through its well-integrated bibliography. Connectionism and the Mind is essentially a progress report on a very young discipline; its readers will see the future a little more clearly. --Rob Lightner
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Connectionism and the Mind provides a clear and balanced introduction to connectionist networks and explores their theoretical and philosophical implications.As in the first edition, the first few chapters focus on network architecture and offer an accessible treatment of the equations that govern learning and the propagation of activation, including a glossary for reference. The reader is walked step-by-step through such tasks as memory retrieval and prototype formation. The middle chapters pursue the implications of connectionism's focus on pattern recognition and completion as fundamental to cognition. Some proponents of connectionism have emphasized these functions to the point of rejecting any role for linguistically structured representations and rules, resulting in heated debates with advocates of symbol processing accounts of cognition. The coverage of this controversy has been updated and augmented by a new chapter on modular networks. Finally, three new chapters discuss the relation of connectionism to three emerging research programs: dynamical systems theory, artificial life, and cognitive neuroscience.
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Technological Innovation and Network Evolution
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The co-evolution of social and physical infrastructure for biotechnology innovation in Turku, Finland [An article from: Research Policy]
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We studied the emergence of biotechnology in Turku, Finland. First, we analysed it as a result of the interaction between the city and its national and international environment, focusing on the city's industrial policy as the mediator. Second, we diagnosed the construction of BioCity, the first biotechnology centre building of Turku, as a key event: the conceptualisation and construction of BioCity required a new kind of collaboration between the city administration, the universities and various commercial actors. We argue that the systems approach to regional development needs to be complemented with approaches that focus on the regional mechanisms of adaptation.
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This digital document is a journal article from Games and Economic Behavior, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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This paper studies a social game where agents choose their partners as well as their actions. Players interact with direct and indirect neighbors in the endogenous network. We show that the architecture of any nontrivial Nash equilibrium is minimally connected, and equilibrium actions approximate a symmetric equilibrium of the underlying game. We apply the model to analyze stochastic stability in 2x2 coordination games. We find that long-run equilibrium selection depends on a trade-off between efficiency and risk dominance due to the presence of scale effects arising from network externalities. Our results suggest a general pattern of equilibrium selection.
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