#1094 Cody Moser: Collective Intelligence and Cultural Innovation
RECORDED ON MARCH 4th 2025.
Cody Moser is a PhD candidate and Fletcher Jones Fellow in the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences at UC Merced, and a 2024 Junior Fellow at The Institute for Humane Studies. He works on questions examining the relationship between structure and adaptation in social, biological, economic, and neural systems from a complex systems perspective. To do this, he utilizes methods from network theory, agent-based modeling, and large-scale corpus analysis.
In this episode, we first discuss collective intelligence. We then delve into cultural innovation, and talk about different structures of social networks and which of them facilitate cultural innovation. We also talk about factors that play a role in cultural innovation; inequality, and genius effects; and cumulative cultural evolution. Finally, we talk about infant-directed speech, and music and the diversity of songs.
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Intro
Collective intelligence
Cultural innovation
Social networks and cultural innovation
Factors that play a role in cultural innovation
Inequality, and genius effects
Cumulative cultural evolution
Infant-directed speech
Music and the diversity of songs
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Follow Cody’s work:
University page: https://tinyurl.com/2zd5dsuu
Website: https://culturologies.co/
Google Scholar page: https://tinyurl.com/mr33prdc