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Social coordination and spatial organization:
Steps towards the evolution of communication.
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, U.K.
Fax: 44­1273­671320
ezequiel@cogs.susx.ac.uk

Abstract Traditional characterizations of communication as a biological phenomenon are theoretically crit­ icized, and an alternative understanding is pre­ sented 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 ex­ periments are presented, one dealing with non­ recursive coordination and the other with coordi­ nation of recursive actions. In the first one co­ ordinated activity evolves even in cases in which a game­theoretic analysis predicts the contrary. This is explained by studying the spatial organi­ zation 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 per­ spective has received much attention lately. However, the view of communication traditionally advanced is far from theoretically unified and it is subject to much dis­ cussion and potential confusion, (see [17]). I claim that this confusion is rooted in the way com­ munication has been defined, partially as a consequence of using as primitives the same phenomena to be ex­ plained, (for instance, terms like ``signal'', ``information'', ``reference'', etc.). Two preconceptions in particular are disclosed and criticised here, together with their impli­ cations for the way the problem has been approached. An alternative description of the phenomenon that avoids these criticisms is presented in terms of behav­ ioral coordination as described by an observer. In order to support this view two sets of computational experi­ ments were carried out, one dealing with simple (non­ recursive) ...

@inproceedings{dipaolo97socialCoordination,
  author={Ezequiel A. Di Paolo},
  title={Social coordination and spatial organization: Steps towards the evolution of communication},
  year={1997},
  address={Cambridge, MA},
  editor={Husbands, P. and Harvey, I.},
  publisher={MIT Press},
  booktitle={ECAL97},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/dipaolo97socialCoordination.html}
}

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