Language as a complex adaptive system

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The paper surveys recent work on modeling the origins of communication systems in groups of autonomous distributed agents. It is shown that five principles gleaned from biology are crucial: reinforcement learning, self-organisation, selectionism, co-evolution through structural coupling, and level formation.

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Steels, L. (2000). Language as a complex adaptive system. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 1917, pp. 17–26). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45356-3_2

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