Signals: Evolution, Learning, & Information

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.


Author: Brian Skyrms
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/02/2010
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780199582945
ISBN10: 0199582947
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects
- Philosophy | Mind & Body
- Philosophy | Epistemology

About the Author

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.

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