2015-10-22: Viktor Winschel (ETH Zurich)

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Viktor Winschel (ETH Zurich)

Semantics for Social Systems where Theory about the System Changes the System

Abstract

In societies the notion of a law is not given by nature. Instead social dynamics are driven by the theories the citizens have about the dynamics of the social system. Obviously self-referential mathematical structures, developed in computer science, are candidates to be applied in social sciences for this foundational issue. We will see a prototypical game theoretical problem where several computer scientific tools can help to discuss these structures. It is a long standing problem in economics and of human kind and their scarce recourses: "should we go to a bar that is always so overcrowded"?

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