This paper combines behavioral economics and social learning. Overconfident agents overweigh their private information relative to the public information revealed by the decisions of others. Therefore, when following a herd, they broadcast more of the information available to them. However, overconfidence trades the additional information revealed by overconfident decisions against more informa...

This paper deals with the constitution and organization of a conscious entity. Informon, as an ordered and named conscious entity, informs in its equally named and informationally disordered (chaotic, irregular) environment, called entropon. Both informon and entropon overlap informationally more or less with other informons and entropons constituting a local or global informational space. A co...