An evolutionary benefit from misperception in foraging behaviour

Authors:
Lachlan Brumley;Kevin B. Korb;Carlo Kopp
Affiliations:
Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia;Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia;Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia
Venue:
ACAL'07 Proceedings of the 3rd Australian conference on Progress in artificial life
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Misperception is a common cause of error for individuals and organisations. Conventional wisdom suggests that its effects are detrimental to the misperceiver or its society as a whole. However, in some circumstances misperception can provide a benefit either by diversifying the behaviour of a population or by discouraging behaviour that has a negative impact on the population. In such cases adaptive pressures will drive the population to evolve a probability of misperception that is optimal for that environment. We explore this hypothesis using an evolutionary artificial life simulation.