Signals - Brian Skyrms

Signals

Evolution, Learning, and Information

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
208 Seiten
2010
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-958082-8 (ISBN)
94,75 inkl. MwSt
Brian Skyrms offers a fascinating demonstration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses various scientific tools to investigate how meaning and communication develop. Signals operate in networks of senders and receivers at all levels of life, transmitting and processing information. That is how humans and animals think and interact.
Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses a variety of tools -- theories of signaling games, information, evolution, and learning -- to investigate how meaning and communication develop. He shows how signaling games themselves evolve, and introduces a new model of learning with invention. The juxtaposition of atomic signals leads to complex signals, as the natural product of gradual process. Signals operate in networks of senders and receivers at all levels of life. Information is transmitted, but it is also processed in various ways. That is how we think -- signals run around a very complicated signaling network. Signaling is a key ingredient in the evolution of teamwork, in the human but also in the animal world, even in micro-organisms. Communication and co-ordination of action are different aspects of the flow of information, and are both effected by signals.

Brian Skyrms is a Distinguished Professor of logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California Irvine, and Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.

Introduction ; 1. Signals ; 2. Signals in Nature ; 3. The Flow of Information ; 4. Evolution ; 5. Evolution in Lewis Signaling Games ; 6. Deception ; 7. Learning ; 8. Learning in Lewis Signaling Games ; 9. Generalizing Signaling Games: Synonyms, Bottlenecks and Other Mismatches ; 10. Inventing New Signals ; 11. Networks I: Information Processing ; 12. Complex Signals and Compositionality ; 13. Networks II: Teamwork ; 14. Learning to Network

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.4.2010
Zusatzinfo 23 line drawings
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 143 x 210 mm
Gewicht 343 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-19-958082-0 / 0199580820
ISBN-13 978-0-19-958082-8 / 9780199580828
Zustand Neuware
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