Agent-based modelling and the environmental complexity thesis

  • Authors:
  • Anil K. Seth

  • Affiliations:
  • The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, San Diego, CA

  • Venue:
  • ICSAB Proceedings of the seventh international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A variation of Godfrey-Smith's 'environmental complexity thesis' is described which draws together two broad themes; the relation of functional properties of behaviour to environmental structure, and the distinction between behavioural and mechanistic levels of description. The specific idea defended here is that behavioural and/or mechanistic complexity can be understood in terms of mediating well-adapted responses to environmental variability. Particular attention is paid to the value of agent-based modelling within this framework.