The origins of communication revisited
The origins of communication revisited
Quinn (2001) sought to demonstrate that communication between simulated agents could be evolved without pre-defined communication channels. Quinn’s work was exciting because it showed the potential for ALife models to look at the real origin of communication; however, the work has never been replicated. In order to test the generality of Quinn’s result we use a similar task but a completely different agent architecture. We find that qualitatively similar behaviours emerge, but it is not clear whether they are genuinely communicative. We extend Quinn’s work by adding perceptual noise and internal state to the agents in order to promote ritualization of the nascent signal. Results were inconclusive; philosophical implications are discussed.
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Arranz, Jordi
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Noble, Jason
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Silverman, Eric
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August 2011
Arranz, Jordi
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Noble, Jason
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Silverman, Eric
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Arranz, Jordi, Noble, Jason and Silverman, Eric
(2011)
The origins of communication revisited.
Lenaerts, Tom, Giacobini, Mario, Bersini, Hugues, Bourgine, Paul, Dorigo, Marco and Doursat, René
(eds.)
In Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011: Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems.
MIT Press.
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Quinn (2001) sought to demonstrate that communication between simulated agents could be evolved without pre-defined communication channels. Quinn’s work was exciting because it showed the potential for ALife models to look at the real origin of communication; however, the work has never been replicated. In order to test the generality of Quinn’s result we use a similar task but a completely different agent architecture. We find that qualitatively similar behaviours emerge, but it is not clear whether they are genuinely communicative. We extend Quinn’s work by adding perceptual noise and internal state to the agents in order to promote ritualization of the nascent signal. Results were inconclusive; philosophical implications are discussed.
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Published date: August 2011
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Eleventh European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ECAL'11), Paris, France, 2011-08-08 - 2011-08-11
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Agents, Interactions & Complexity
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Jordi Arranz
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Jason Noble
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Eric Silverman
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Tom Lenaerts
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Mario Giacobini
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Hugues Bersini
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Paul Bourgine
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Marco Dorigo
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René Doursat
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