The Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences hosted a ‘DeepSeek Roundtable Discussion’ on Friday 28 February 2025, 10:00-11:00am. This informal discussion included participants from the School of Computer Science and the School of Psychology and Neuroscience; the discussion was open to all staff and students at the University of St Andrews.
Speakers: discussion led by Amanda Seed (School of Psychology and Neuroscience), Derek Ball (Department of Philosophy), Josep Call (School of Psychology and Neuroscience) and Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez (National Autonomous University of Mexico) These sessions were prompted by the idea, discussed during previous seminar sessions, that a group might use a collective representation to interact with the environment. ...
Speaker: Tugce Cuhadaroglu (St Andrews Business School, Department of Economics) Abstract: What does the notion of collective representation mean to an economist? In this talk, I’ll explore how economists from different fields think about this concept—where their views overlap, and where they diverge. I’ll also draw some lines between collective representation and related ideas like collective behavior ...
Speaker: Dr Christophe Heintz (Central European University, Vienna, Austria and Visiting Scholar at the GRCDI, University of St Andrews) This presentation examines the diverse strategies for satisfying informative intentions, arguing that ostensive communication represents just one approach within a broader spectrum of intentional behaviours. Evidence suggests that both humans and non-human great apes routinely satisfy informative intentions without ...
Speaker: Kenneth Mavor (School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews) It is 100 years since the social psychologist William McDougall (1920) wrote “The Group Mind”. Innovative, but perhaps too meta-physical for the audience at the time, Psychology largely responded by asserting that all (human) collective phenomena were simple aggregates of individual psychology. However, we ...
Speaker: Dr Christophe Heintz (Central European University, Vienna, Austria and Visiting Scholar at the GRCDI, University of St Andrews) In place of an abstract, Christophe would like to discuss the following themes: Further debates based on the talk I shall give on May 6th: “Diverse pathways to satisfying informative intentions”, in particular concerning: i- recognising humans’ diverse ways to ...