Implications of the social brain hypothesis for evolving human-like cognition in digital organisms

Authors:
Suzanne Sadedin;Greg Paperin
Affiliations:
Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Vic., Australia;Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Vic., Australia
Venue:
ECAL'09 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Advances in artificial life: Darwin meets von Neumann - Volume Part II
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Data show that human-like cognitive traits do not evolve in animals through natural selection. Rather, human-like cognition evolves through runaway selection for social skills. Here, we discuss why social selection may be uniquely effective for promoting human-like cognition, and the conditions that facilitate it. These observations suggest future directions for artificial life research aimed at generating human-like cognition in digital organisms.