Innovation: A Culture Perspective
Topics
Definition of Culture
Culture as Mental Phenomena
Culture as a System of Interconnected Concepts
Culture as a Constructed Reality
Invention versus Innovation
Innovation and Classical Mathematical Modeling:Problem of Self-Modification
Innovation as Process for Change in Structure
Simple Schema for a Wide Class of Models
Change1 in a Dynamic System:Change in State
Change2 in a Dynamic System:Change in Parameter Values
Change3 in a Dynamic System:Change in Structure
Invention, Innovation and Change
Explanatory Paradigms
Change1: Canonical Physical Explanatory Paradigm
External Invention and Internal Innovation :Biological Explanatory Paradigm
Self Modification Cultural Explanatory Paradigm
Change in Parameter Values: Boundary for Humanness
Constructed Reality = Parameter ValueUnits are Categories Human and Not HumanStructure is Opposition of Categories
Innovation in American Marriage: Same Sex Marriage
Innovation in Cultural System: Same Sex Marriage
Marriage Proposal: Structure and Meaning
Marriage Vows: Structure and Meaning
Innovation 1: Economic Dependence Transformed into Economic Independence
Implication of Innovation 1: Marriage Proposal
Implication of Innovation 1: Marriage Vows
Innovation 2: Change Marriage Instantiation by Removing Sex Criterion for Proposal and Vows
Innovation 2: Marriage Proposal
Innovation 2: Marriage Vows
Summary
Innovation via Ideational Implementation of Material Optima: Netsilik Eskimo
Netsilik Eskimo
Material Ideational Domain Domain
Resources exploited
Interconnected Systems
Key Consequences of Netsilik Cultural Innovations
Netsilik Innovation and Market Innovation: Coherency and Stability
Innovation in Agent Relations: Primates to Hominids
Interagent Predictability
Primate Organization: Groups of Individuals
Chimpanzee Food Sharing:Banana Sharing at Gombe
Band society organization: Cooperation frequent
Meat Sharing: !Kung san (1 kill)
Two Modalities for Sharing: Cultural Concept of Ownership
Cooperative Behavior Payoff:Resources Variable in Time and Space
PPT Slide
Simple Society
Complex Society
Complex Society: Limitation on Socially Coherent Group Size
Deduced Relation Without Genetic Linkage
Coherency Through Constructed Relations
Learning Problem
Learning Problem: Innovation
Set of Relations: Coherence Through Time
Fitness Decay in Terms of Relation Set Coherence
Generative Set of Relations (Cultural Construct)
Ontological Uncertainty (Kinship Computations and Narrative Stories)
Kinship Identification and Calculation
Gao’s Calculation
Complexity of Genealogy compared to Simplification Achieved through a Kinship Terminology Structure
Symbolic StructureAlgebraic Model
Multiple Instantiation of Same Structure
Cultural System
Conceptual System Connecting Phenomenological and Ideational Domains
Embedding and Instantiation
Story + Narrative Logic
Questions?
Evolution
Evolutionary Model for Cultural Invention and Innovation
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