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Tag: cultural evolution

Sat
May 11th
2024
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Synthetic Consciousness: Seeing and Believing

This roundtable explores the intricate relationship between vision and attention, the role of vision in our perception of truth and falsehood, and the implications of these concepts on our understanding of animal consciousness, sensory perception, and cultural evolution.
Sat
Oct 15th
2022
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Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Coding, Fiction, Metafiction – the Parcellation of What Isn’t There

The humanities deal with the manipulation of ideas. Ideas can be encoded, metabolized, and contribute to cultural evolution. What roles do cultural memes – be they fact, factoid, or fiction – play in what goes on. Does fiction provide any insight into this complex dynamic?… read more »

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