嘉    宾： Soo Hong Chew 教授 西南财经大学

主持人： 林熙之 助理教授 上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院

时    间： 2025年 5月27日（周二）14:00-15:30

地    点:  上海交通大学徐汇校区安泰经济与管理学院B716

内容简介：

In The Principles of Psychology(1890),William Jamesdescribesconsciousness as a“stream”a continuous,dynamic process thatfacilitates theperception of the environment. InWhy Consciousness?”. RobertAumann(2024)argues that consciousness evolved to enable the experience ofincentivesunderpinning all economic decision making, while leaving open thequestion oflow",Our answer to this question, built on brain plasticity at thesynapticlevel, delivers a measure of experiential consciousness in terms of thebrain'sinformation capacity (BIC). The resulting relation between BIC andtheevolution of cephalized animals, fom CElegans (302 neurons, 7000synapses)to humans (86 billion neurons, hundreds of trillions of synapses)motivates ourdefinition of intelligence in terms of the organism's ability to makequalitydecisions to attain goals, i.e., survival of the smartest. Observe thatgoalintelligence (Gldifferentiates biological intelligence (incentivized toattaingoals through decision making)from Al (which fulfills goalsalgorithmically)GI is naturally applicable to research in economics, businessand social sciencesin general, where decision quality has a pivotal role.

演讲人简介：

Chew Soo Hong is a Professor at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Emeritus Professor at the National University of Singapore, Fellow of the Econometric Society (2012), and Fellow of SAET (2020). His primary research interests span decision theory, behavioral economics, experimental economics, and neuroeconomics. Professor Chew is a pioneer in integrating genomics, neuroscience, decision theory, and behavioral and experimental economics to explore decision-making processes at the neural and molecular levels. His influential work has been published in leading journals such as Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron, and others.