Combining the Models of Game Theory with Brain Neurones

Introduction

By combining the models of game theory with brain neurons (consciousness & subconsciousness levels) of the brain economic approach to the study of individual thought-creation has the potential to improve our recognition of brain mechanism involved in individual creativity and to our understanding how one makes decisions after being influenced by multiple environments and interactions.

Wiring Brain Neurones

Previous study has shown that neurons in the brain are wired. To be more precise, researchers in that study has found that connections between nearby neurons are organized like a social network.[1] In a social network, the ‘brain neurons’ are people that interact with each other. These findings have become a starting point for the author's ideas that suggest creation of a model of an individually created process, informed by the game theory approach, which has been successfully applied in economics.

The author indicates that the existing methods and techniques for brain network analysis might be inadequate to capture conscious (rational and emotional) and subconscious strategic interaction that occur among brain neurons. Game theory is a natural instrument that could help us to overcome this inadequacy since it creates mathematical models of strategic interplay among different agents.

The interaction between e.g.: two agents (two human beings) have been interpreted from the perspective of a game. For example, using classic strategies from game theory, players follow set of rules by which the game is played. Inspired by the above observation, the author provides the conceptual underpinnings of the use of game theoretic models in brain neurons analysis and their interplay on both conscious and subconscious level.

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References

[1] University of Basel, 'The brain’s social network: Nerve cells interact like friends on Facebook' (biozentrum, 4 February 2015) <http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/news-events/news/news-details/article/the-brains-social-network-nerve-cells-interact-like-friends-onfacebook/>

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