Brian Skyrms offers a fascinating demonstration of how fundamental signals are to our world. He uses various scientific tools to investigate how meaning and communication develop. Signals operate in networks of senders and receivers at all levels of life, transmitting and processing information. That is how humans and animals think and interact. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Signals; 2: Signals in Nature; 3: The Flow of Information; 4: Evolution; 5: Evolution in Lewis Signaling Games; 6: Deception; 7: Learning; 8: Learning in Lewis Signaling Games; 9: Generalizing SignalingGames: Synonyms, Bottlenecks and Other Mismatches; 10: Inventing New Signals;11: Networks I: Information Processing; 12: Complex Signals and Compositionality; 13: Networks II: Teamwork; 14: Learning to Network
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958294-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 08/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés