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SUMMARY:An Extended-Self\, Games and Conflict Resolution Today - Professor
  Noboru Hidano\, Tokyo Institute of Technology
DTSTART:20151118T160000Z
DTEND:20151118T170000Z
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CONTACT:Clare Eaves
DESCRIPTION:Conflicts amongst individuals and collectivities— not to men
 tion those within ourselves frequently expressed in terms of bodily stress
 — appear to be increasing in number and scale in our largely digitalized
 \, networking society. The global economy and the earth’s environment\, 
 as well as all types of policymaking and planning\, are challenged by such
  conflicts at a greatly accelerated rate. Most such conflicts are clearly 
 the result of accumulated decisions undertaken on the part of individuals.
  In modern Western society\, the self or ego is regarded as an indivisible
  entity. However\, in the East perceptions of self may well diverge from t
 his Western norm. \n\nIn this talk\, evaluating various self-concepts\, an
  extended-self will be posited and conflicts between selves described as a
  two-stage game contributing to the process of its formation. This extende
 d-self comes into being only under certain conditions\, one of which is th
 at the cost of communication between any two selves needs to be minimal. D
 espite the fact that acceptable solutions of two agents in ordinal competi
 tive games may not be optimal for both\, an extended-self is able to striv
 e for an optimal solution. Taking into account the importance of reducing 
 communication costs between competing selves in order best to arrive at a 
 viable extended-self\, the requisite process of resolving internal conflic
 t at all levels\, namely the reduction of attrition and its accompanying s
 tress\, may well be achieved via bodily communication with organs in a sel
 f. External conflicts among selves may also be solved by synchronized coll
 ective art making\, as for example in the creation of certain types of pub
 lic art. \n\n\nBiography\n\nProfessor Emeritus and Fellow\, CSWC\, Tokyo I
 nstitute of Technology \n\nThe ecological and environmental economist Nobo
 ru Hidano is well known for his book The Economic Valuation of the Environ
 ment and Public Policy: A Hedonic Approach (Edward Elgar\, 2002)\, a leadi
 ng text in the hedonic valuation approach as pursued in public policy and 
 environmental assessment. Professor Hidano has also advocated the notion o
 f “extended self-concept’’\, based upon the Eastern idea of self as 
 set forth in a paper “Extended Self\, Game\, and Conflict’’ in Annal
 s of the International Society of Dynamic Games (2006) and an article “P
 ublic Space in the City from the Viewpoints of Extended Self-Concept: A Fr
 agment of Happiness’’ in Publicness from the perspective of city\, Pub
 lic Philosophy (Tokyo University Press\, 2004). He seeks to integrate scie
 nce\, engineering\, and art education in the overall search for contentmen
 t on behalf of the individual and society\, based on his half-century of e
 xperience in interdisciplinary education and research.\n\n\nProfessor Hida
 no graduated from the Department of Social Engineering at Tokyo Tech\, Jap
 an’s foremost sci-tech university. Established in 1966\, this department
  was one of the earliest to adopt an interdisciplinary approach\, one comp
 rising economics\, psychology\, engineering\, and city planning. He receiv
 ed a doctorate from Tokyo Tech. After moved to Tokyo University as associa
 te professor and he was appointed full professor at the Department of Soci
 al Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1991. He is the recipie
 nt of several prizes including the prestigious Japan Science and Technolog
 y Prize.\n
LOCATION:Mill Lane Lecture Room 1
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