Abstract

In his office at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Domenico Parisi sat in front of a densely written whiteboard. It was crowded with different geometric figures, mainly circles. In the visual dictionary of Domenico, circles represent divers things: agents, neurons, environments and more. With a pinch of imagination, it was not difficult to see an entire world behind those figures. A simulated (micro) world designed and developed to explain interesting phenomena of its real counterpart. In this paper, I try to describe how Domenico’s ideas influenced and still influence, through his precious scientific heritage, my research work devoted to building up (micro) worlds to better understand psychological phenomena