Distributed, Emergent Cultural Cognition {DECC} (Sharifian, 2008) is a proposal that tries to expand standard individual cognition to cultural groups, drawing insights from Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) Theory. Taking impetus from the Wittgensteinian notion of Language-Games, I believe that DECC can be re-construed and elucidated upon in Game Theoretic terms, with individual cognitions modeled as players of a game. Which of the games in the list below would you choose to achieve that -if any? Why?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_in_game_theory
Are there standard games involving players with varying degrees of willingness to collaborate?
Very interesting use of Wittgenstein's ideas.Perhaps scrum poker or planning poker can offer a heuristic for estimating " willingness to collaborate."Especially in facilitating estimations of time and effort needed to complete a project. Or in this case an estimation of the willingness defined in time and effort proposed by each of the players.
@Shian-Loong Bernard Lew
From what I gather, scrum poker is a gamified effort estimation technique in agile software development, rather than a 'legitimate' Game Theory notion. That means it would take some (re)construing itself before it can be used for a game theoretic treatment of DECC. Besides, I sense that cultural cognition is not that consciously goal-driven. I mean, unlike software developers, players/agents/individual cognitions do not just sit down together and decide to build the thing! They do collaborate, of course, but usually not with the pre-established goal to contribute to cultural cognition, but rather with their own agendas in mind, with cultural cognition emerging as a 'byproduct' of their interraction.
The word "games" is used in several different ways and confusing them can lead to -- well -- confusion. Gamification is one, common also in nursing training. Wittgenstein's "language games" is, I think, another. "Legitimate" Game theory, to use your phrase, is better referred to as "Interactive decision theory." (Schelling, Aumann). To try to choose from a list of commonly studied "games" one that would address your problem is most probably an unproductive research strategy. There is, however, a literature on game-theoretic semantics. I don't know it but I believe some contributions have come from Brandenburger. If, however, you nevertheless want to begin from a simple, well-studied noncooperative game model, the Battle of the Sexes might be the place to begin. It was originated in Games and Decisions by Luce and Raiffa in the 1950s.
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