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SRI's weekly Seminar Series welcomes Richard Watson, associate professor in the Agents, Interaction and Complexity group at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science. Watson has over 80 publications on topics spanning artificial life, robotics, evolutionary computation, population genetics, neural networks, evolutionary theory and computational biology, and is the author of Compositional Evolution: The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution (MIT Press, 2006).

Watson’s research seeks to deepen our understanding of biological evolution by expanding the formal equivalence of learning and evolution—in particular, using connectionist models of cognition and learning. In this talk, he will introduce the concept of “natural induction” as a critique of the ideas of Universal Darwinism that focuses on the evolutionary potential of how organisms develop relationships by working together.

More information on this seminar is available here: https://srinstitute.utoronto.ca/event...

About the SRI Seminar Series
The SRI Seminar Series brings together the Schwartz Reisman community and beyond for a robust exchange of ideas that advance scholarship at the intersection of technology and society. Seminars are led by a leading or emerging scholar and feature extensive discussion.

Each week, a featured speaker will present for 45 minutes, followed by 45 minutes of discussion. Registered attendees will be emailed a Zoom link approximately one hour before the event begins. The event will be recorded and posted online.