IT&CI Assistance Gain High Knowledge in Economics

Abstract

In a global knowledge-based society, there are several complex phenomena causing difficulties in deeper understanding only by using conventional approaches. Such difficulties are evident in imagination upon the case of complex economic processes too. In fact, the human mind, generally, in its effort to understand other human beings and their actions in complex environment is limited. For many people several economic complexities are simply speaking unfathomable. However, these situations are basing problems also in scientific economic community, which is resulting in lacking useably theory of contemporary development. It is worse, that such none and misunderstand complexities harms the quality of economic activity in wide sense because of false economic consciences at all. Among others, there are several myths, parables and sorry to say some Trojan horses in wide economic reasoning. Naturally, in those situations there should be by economists consequently analysing new phenomena, need to building appropriate theories and disseminating them to wide community. Fortunately, new results in developing scientific community of cognitive sciences and first of all with progressing in IT&CI and achieved advances in applied informatics and computational intelligence there are arising several new opportunities for a deeper dialogue with mental models and theories in the class of social sciences and mainly in the branch of economic sciences. That “three-body synthesis” – integration of cognitive sciences with informatics and economics to one coworking entirety (crossbreed reasoning) create great promise for solving complex phenomena and secrets of contemporary crises in global knowledge based economy. The actual manner in economics related to the creation of virtual laboratories positioned by built-in formalised mental models and to realisation of simulation experimentation with such creations. For those virtual devices, the author uses only in the working formthe name “Economic Softbot Population”, in short EcoSoP. He again similarly calls such single pieces of equipment in appropriate software by a working term “CI economics creatures” or shortly “economics softbots” and/or “economic myslits”. He refers to the dialogue with such softbots as (mutual and/or two-way) storytelling, i.e. telling a story with an active assistance of softbots not only in the formof conventional (predominantly verbal) stories but with parallel running experiments, too. The goal of this essay is to deal with the population inhabited by various simple economic softbots and realisation of several small stories with the assistance of appropriate (ready-to-use) software as practically examined in education and/or for other purposes. The topic of the essay belongs to the class of emergent research/education/learning technologies. Their innovative power is in the dominance of constructive upon instructive approaches and based on holistic qualitative perception of the various complexities.