Social Science 180H - Artificial Culture:Experiments in Synthetic Anthropology

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University of California-Irvine

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Exploring artificially evolved multi-agent worlds through computer simulations provides new insight into describing, understanding, explaining the complex causal web of biological and cultural processes that make us human. Embraces an evolutionary and computational epistemology, focuses on emergence of distributed cultural cognition.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uci.edu/

Phone Number:

(949) 824-5011

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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