Building Blocks of Religion - Critical Applications and Future Prospects - Göran Larsson
Computing Consilience: How Modeling and Simulation can Contribute to Worldview Studies
Building Blocks of Religion - Critical Applications and Future Prospects - Göran Larsson
Fount LeRon Shults [+]
University of Agder
Fount LeRon Shults is professor at the Institute for Religion, Philosophy, and History at the University of Agder and director of the NORCE Center for Modeling Social Systems in Kristiansand, Norway. He has published 17 books and nearly 100 scientific articles and book chapters on topics related to the study of religion.
Description
This chapter explores some of the ways in which computer modeling and simulation (CMS) can help build epistemological bridges across the sciences and the humanities, one of the main tasks for which the BBA was constructed. It focuses in particular on the role that reverse engineering and predictive processing are meant to play in achieving consilience and demonstrates the usefulness of some of the conceptual practices and technological tools within the field of CMS for clarifying and facilitating that task.