主讲人：Chew Soo Hong & Richard Ebstein

题目：Goal Intelligence: From Brain Plasticity to Experiential Consciousness to Decision Quality

时间：2025年4月1日，下午4:00-5:30

线下地点：Chengzheng Building 1600

摘要：

In The Principles of Psychology (1890), William James describes consciousness as a "stream" -- a continuous, dynamic process that facilitates the perception of the environment. In “Why Consciousness?”, Robert Aumann (2024) argues that consciousness evolved to enable the experience of incentives underpinning all economic decision making, while leaving open the question of "How". Our answer to this question, built on brain plasticity at the synaptic level, delivers a measure of experiential consciousness in terms of the brain's information capacity (lC). The resulting relation between lC and the evolution of cephalized animals, from C. Elegans (302 neurons; 7000 synapses) to humans (86 billion neurons, hundreds of trillions of synapses), motivates our definition of intelligence in terms of the organism's ability to make good decisions to attain goals, i.e., survival of the smartest. Observe that goal intelligence (Gl) differentiates biological intelligence (incentivized to attain goals through decision making) from Al (which fulfills goals algorithmically). Gl is naturally applicable to research in economics, business, and social sciences in general, where decision quality has a pivotal role.