| MAY LEARNING GUIDE THE EVOLUTION? |
Roberto Bordogna, panel co-ordinator
DIS, University of Pavia
Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia - Italy
phone: +39 382 505372
fax: +39 382 505373
e-mail:
bordogna@vision.unipv.it
Richard Walker
Cognitive Science Group,
Dept. of Psychology, University of Palermo
Via XXIV Maggio 130, 00046 Grottaferrata - Italy
e-mail:
rwalker@trainet.it
Since ancient time learning has been investigated as a human fundamental
capability. "Considering what have been seen" is a specific "human being"
function, according to Plato (Cratilo 399 B), for instance.
It is as well often stressed that evolution is the result
of heredity and of acquired
characters as a unity (individual) and as a member of a
multiplicity
(a group or a community), but "living systems"
are both modified and modify their ambits accordingly to contingent
necessity and
to a given degree of freedom.
Human beings' social economic history
offers evidence of a wide increase of productivity
and of the degree of freedom. Modern "knowledge-based" development appears
increasingly based on "media" (technical means and technologies) to
interact with natural, artificial and social commons.
These influence communications, social and individual
practice. In front of
historically given personal and common resources it is then important to
investigate natural, artificial and social economic cultural drivers
as economical factors of personal evolution
and society civilization.
It is therefore important to investigate the effect of technical means and of
communications on
- the dynamics of learning both for
- an individual and
- the community;
- the impact of culture on learning process and social economic evolution;
- learning and the economics of social-economic development.
e-mail: hmp@ipvvis.unipv.it