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From synthetic modeling of social interaction to dynamic theories of brain–body–environment–body–brain systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2013

Tom Froese
Affiliation:
Ikegami Laboratory, Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153 8902, Japan. t.froese@gmail.comhttp://froese.wordpress.comikeg@sacral.c.u-tokyo.ac.jphttp://sacral.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.html Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación, Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. 20-726, 01000 Mexico D.F., Mexico
Hiroyuki Iizuka
Affiliation:
Department of Bioinformatic Engineering, Human Information Engineering Laboratory, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Osaka, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. iizuka@ist.osaka-u.ac.jphttp://www-hiel.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/~iizuka/Hiroyuki_Iizuka.html
Takashi Ikegami
Affiliation:
Ikegami Laboratory, Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153 8902, Japan. t.froese@gmail.comhttp://froese.wordpress.comikeg@sacral.c.u-tokyo.ac.jphttp://sacral.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.html

Abstract

Synthetic approaches to social interaction support the development of a second-person neuroscience. Agent-based models and psychological experiments can be related in a mutually informing manner. Models have the advantage of making the nonlinear brain–body–environment–body–brain system as a whole accessible to analysis by dynamical systems theory. We highlight some general principles of how social interaction can partially constitute an individual's behavior.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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