微观经济与数字经济教研室学术讲座

报告题目：Intelligence, Situation Awareness, and Context Sensitive Choice: From Brain Plasticity to Consciousness to Incentive
报  告 人：Chew Soo Hong（西南财经大学智慧经济科学研究中心 教授）
主  持 人：杨尔雅（中山大学岭南学院 助理教授）
时     间：2025年12月26日（周五）16: 00
地     点：岭南学院MBA大楼601
语     言：英文

摘要：

      Intelligence refers to the ability to perceive situations in general, acting appropriately, deciding among perceived options, towards accomplishing goals (Chew and Ebstein, 2025). In The Principles of Psychology, William James (1890) 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 incentive, underpinning goal seeking behavior such as preference maximization implicit in economic decision making. Auman leaves open the question of“How" which we address by relying on brain plasticity at the synaptic level. We hypothesize that the experience of incentive emerges from the modulation of synaptic plasticity respectively by the gain- and loss-oriented neurochemicals of dopamine and serotonin. We further associate the attention function in Attention Weighted Utility (AWU–Chew, 1983; Chew, Wang, Zhong, 2025) with the pair of neurochemicals–acetylcholine and norepinephrine–modulating top-down attention and bottom-up salience respectively. This delivers a neurobiological foundation for AWU, which is being applied to model context sensitive choice arising from changing as well as increasing awareness (Karni, Viero, 2013).

报告人简介：

      Chew Soo Hong教授，西南财经大学智慧经济科学研究中心主任，新加坡国立大学经济系讲席教授。现为世界计量经济学会会士（Econometric Society, Fellow）和经济学理论促进学会会士（SAET, Fellow），是行为和实验学的国际领军人物。他于1981年毕业于不列颠哥伦比亚大学。在Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of European Economic Association, Journal of Economic Theory, Management Science, International Economic Review等经济学国际顶尖期刊发表诸多论文。他同时也在有关生物学的重要学刊发表了许多论文，如Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron, Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B, Behavioral and Brain Sciences以及Neuroimage等。

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