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Krasnow Institute > Monday Seminars > Abstracts Social Construction of Reality Modeling A Trader Network Program Using the Principles of Interpretive Social Science Deborah Duong Human Cognition is fundamentally social: our models of cognition from artificial intelligence to artificial life models of the economy are incomplete until we incorporate the findings of sociology and interpretive social science. The first part of my talk will present the principles of interpretive social science from the perspective of several disciplines. Then, an artificial life model of an economy which uses these principles will be presented. In this model, symbolic interactionist display and reading of signs on the level of the agent emerges institutions of society such as ideal types (person schema), a division of labor, a network of traders, and price. Each agent has his own genetic algorithm, which is a "society of mind" in his head, that coevolves its meanings with the other traders. Applications to artificial intelligence will be discussed.
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