complexitystudies

A lot of posts on this blog will be about rationality, scientific realism etc. - you may ask how this is connected to complexity science.

This is because my thesis work concerns looking at “human” systems (many individual agents acting independently - ok, so they’re pseudo-humans ). I am especially interested in the relationship of “rational” agents and “irrational agents” - for instance, if irrational agents can survive in the long run if they have to compete against rational ones, or even if irrational agents threaten the survival of rational agents (because they are aggressive toward rational ones). This of course means I have to define a rationality criterion in the model, or ensure that it emerges (now that would be difficult!).

While I am not yet sure as to how detailed my models will be and how useful this research into rationality will be for my models, I am very interested in principle what constitutes rational behaviour in the first place, and what makes us human rational or irrational.

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