Barrett, Jeffrey A. and Skyrms, Brian (2015) Self-Assembling Games. [Preprint]

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Abstract

We consider how cue-reading, sensory-manipulation, and signaling games may initially evolve from ritualized decisions and how more complex games may evolve from simpler games by polymerization, template transfer, and modular composition. Modular composition is a process that combines simpler games into more complex games. Template transfer, a process by which a game is appropriated to a context other than the one in which it initially evolved, is one mechanism for modular composition. And polymerization is a particularly salient example of modular composition where simpler games evolve to form more complex chains. We also consider how the evolution of new capacities by modular composition may be more efficient than evolving those capacities from basic decisions.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Barrett, Jeffrey A. j.barrett@uci.edu Skyrms, Brian
Keywords:	games, evolutionary games, signaling, modular composition, evolution of computation
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence
Depositing User:	Jeffrey Barrett
Date Deposited:	08 Feb 2015 20:39
Last Modified:	08 Feb 2015 20:39
Item ID:	11301
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Artificial Intelligence
Date:	4 February 2015
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11301

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