Barrett, Jeffrey A. (2020) Self-Assembling Games and the Evolution of Salience. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1464-3537

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We consider here how a generalized signaling game may self-assemble as the saliences of the agents evolve by reinforcement on those sources of information that in fact lead to successful action. On the present account, generalized signaling games self-assemble even as the agents coevolve meaningful representations and successful dispositions for using those representations. We will see how reinforcement on successful information sources also provides a mechanism whereby simpler games might compose to form more complex games. Along the way, we consider how an old game might be appropriated to a new context by reinforcement on successful associations between old and new saliences.

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Item Type:	Published Article or Volume
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Barrett, Jeffrey A. j.barrett@uci.edu
Keywords:	evolution of salience, self-assembling games, evolutionary game theory, evolution of perceptual categories
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations General Issues > Game Theory General Issues > Natural Kinds
Depositing User:	Jeffrey Barrett
Date Deposited:	01 Apr 2020 03:29
Last Modified:	01 Apr 2020 03:29
Item ID:	17039
Journal or Publication Title:	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Concepts and Representations General Issues > Game Theory General Issues > Natural Kinds
Date:	31 March 2020
ISSN:	1464-3537
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17039

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