Posted by
Steve Smith on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/36-hour-online-game-research-exercise-tp7583780p7583786.html
Eric -
Hi Roger and Steve,
After using games to make decisions, may as well use them to
define truth values:
I got led into this connection through pointers to Jaakko
HIntikka's game theoretic semantics (pointed out to me by Cosma
Shalizi many years ago), but he is introduced rather late
(Sec.3) of the link above, so clearly I have missed most of the
iceberg.
Thanks for leading me back on topic <careening through the
intersection of applied complexity and wild rambling raves about
life, the universe and
anything>...
I am amazed at how late formal game theory came to the table...
there is such a long and rich history of problem characterization
and problem solving through techniques containing many of the same
attributes (sumerian mathematics, socratic dialogue, medieval
techniques for logicla reasoning-e.g.
Obligationes
, Victorian "logic puzzles", etc.).
Modern game theory is a hallmark of the age of most of us on this
list. We either "came of age" as it was evolving (Gale, von
Nuemann, et al) during the 1950's or were born into it's first
generation of existence (the millenials and XYgen here grew up with
it in their water along with flouride, chlorine, and NIH-approved
levels heavy metal salts, hormones, and pharmaceuticals).
While I'm (always?) very interested in the formal underpinnings (in
this case formal Game Theory), I'm also interested in the
social/sentient phenomena of play (and work?), and in the
philosophical (OMG!) perspectives such as offered by James Carse in
his "
Finite
and Infinite Games".
Oops... I think I'm back off topic again.
Can you say a little more about
your application/interest in
GTS? Does it apply to the emergence of metabolic networks?
- Steve
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