THEORY FROM CHAOS

Episteme ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Scientific Theory ◽  
Agent Based Model ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Range Of Values

AbstractI explore an agent-based model of the development and dissemination of scientific theory that makes very little use of any pre-defined “social structure” (such as partnerships or collaborations). In these models, under a broad range of values of the parameters, widespread (but not universal) “agreement” about scientific theory emerges. Moreover, the residual disagreement turns out to be important to developing new theories in the face of new evidence.

scholarly journals An Agent-based model of the gradual emergence of modern linguistic complexity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Ruland ◽  
Alejandro Andirkó ◽  
Iza Romanowska ◽  
Cedric Boeckx
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Capacity ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Agent Based Model ◽  
Demographic Expansion ◽  
Linguistic Complexity ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Transmission Of Information ◽  
Early Brain Development ◽  
The Face

A central question in the evolution of human language is whether it emerged as a result of one specific event or from a mosaic-like constellation of different phenomena and their interactions. Three potential processes have been identified by recent research as the potential primum mobile for the origins of modern linguistic complexity: Self-domestication, characterized by a reduction in reactive aggression and often associated with a gracilization of the face; changes in early brain development manifested by globularization of the skull; and demographic expansion of H. sapiens during the Middle Pleistocene. We developed an agent-based model to investigate how these three factors influence transmission of information within a population. Our model shows that there is an optimal degree of both hostility and mental capacity at which the amount of transmitted information is the largest. It also shows that linguistic communities formed within the population are strongest under circumstances where individuals have high levels of cognitive capacity available for information processing and there is at least a certain degree of hostility present. In contrast, we find no significant effects related to population size.

Simulations of an Agent-Based Model that Consists of a Large Number of Agents Moving Stochastically in a Wide Bounded Domain

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minoru Tabata ◽  
Akira Ide ◽  
Nobuoki Eshima ◽  
Kyushu Takagi ◽  
Yasuhiro Takei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bounded Domain ◽  
Agent Based Model ◽  
Agent Based
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