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Abstract

A complete understanding of communication, language, intention­ ality and related mental phenomena will require a theory integrating mechanistic explanations with ethological phenomena. For the foresee­ able future, the complexities of natural life in its natural environment will preclude such an understanding. An approach more conducive to carefully controlled experiments and to the discovery of deep laws of great generality is to study synthetic life forms in a synthetic world to which they have become coupled through evolution. This is the approach of synthetic ethology. Some simple synthetic ethology ex­ periments are described in which we have observed the evolution of communication in a population of simple machines. We show that even in these simple worlds we find some of the richness and complexity found in natural communication.

@inproceedings{maclennan92syntheticEthology,
  author={B. MacLennan},
  title={Synthetic Ethology: An approach to the study of communication},
  year={1992},
  pages={631-658},
  address={Redwood City, CA},
  editor={C. Langton and C. Taylor and D. Farmer and S. Rasmussen},
  publisher={Addison-Wesley},
  booktitle={Artificial Life II},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/maclennan92syntheticEthology.html}
}

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