Social coordination and spatial organization: Steps towards the evolution of communication. (1997) [14 citations — 1 self]
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author = {Ezequiel A. Di Paolo},
title = {Social coordination and spatial organization: Steps towards the evolution of communication.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL'97},
year = {1997},
pages = {464--473},
publisher = {MIT Press}
}
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Traditional characterizations of communication as a biological phenomenon are theoretically criticized, and an alternative understanding is presented in terms of recursive action coordination following works on cybernetics and autopoiesis. As first steps towards a study on the evolution of communication, two sets of computational experiments are presented, one dealing with nonrecursive coordination and the other with coordination of recursive actions. In the first one coordinated activity evolves even in cases in which a game-theoretic analysis predicts the contrary. This is explained by studying the spatial organization in the distribution of agents. The second one shows the inappropriateness of the metaphor of communication as an exchange of information. 1 Introduction The study of communication from an evolutionary perspective has received much attention lately. However, the view of communication traditionally advanced is far from theoretically unified and it is subject to much di...
