Gabora, L. (1995) Meme and Variations: A Computational Model of Cultural Evolution. [Book Chapter]
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Abstract
This paper describes a computational model of how ideas, or memes, evolve through the processes of variation, selection, and replication. Every iteration, each neural-network based agent in an artificial society has the opportunity to acquire a new meme, either through 1) INNOVATION, by mutating a previously-learned meme, or 2) IMITATION, by copying a meme performed by a neighbor. Imitation, mental simulation, and using past experience to bias mutation all increase the rate at which fitter memes evolve. Memes at epistatic loci converged more slowly than memes at over- or underdominant loci. The higher the ratio of innovation to imitation, the greater the meme diversity, and the higher the fitness of the fittest meme. Optimization is fastest for the society as a whole with an innovation to imitation ratio of 2:1, but diversity is comprimized.
Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | adaptation, artificial society, computational anthropology, creativity, culture, cultural evolution, cultural learning, diversity, drift, drives, epistasis, embodiment, evolution, fitness, imitation, innovation, Lamark, meme, memetic algorithm, memetic evolution, memory, mental simulation, mutation, neural network, optimization, overdominance, replication, selection, social learning, transmission, underdominance. |
Subjects: | Biology > Evolution Biology > Population Biology Biology > Theoretical Biology Psychology > Cognitive Psychology Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence Computer Science > Complexity Theory Computer Science > Dynamical Systems Computer Science > Machine Learning Computer Science > Neural Nets Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Philosophy > Epistemology Psychology > Social Psychology |
ID Code: | 531 |
Deposited By: | Gabora, Dr. Liane |
Deposited On: | 22 Jan 1999 |
Last Modified: | 11 Mar 2011 08:54 |
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