The video below is titled, “Chimpanzee Human-Like Behavior Montage.” Of course, we only think of their behavior as “human-like” because we’re human. I’m sure they are watching us on Youtube thinking, “Man, those humans sure act like Chimpanzees!’”
Chris Rollins has a great post on Emergent Behavior on Scientific Blogging. He makes a great series of points hear about the relationship between emergent behavior and entropy, and how they can possibly coexist: Emergent behavior, or the spontaneous creation … Continue reading
In an article for the Journal of Theoretical Biology, Herbert Gintis provides a model that shows that: “if an internal norm is fitness enhancing, then for plausible patterns of socialization, the allele for the internalization of norms is evolutionarily stable.” … Continue reading
This post is part of a series of posts I’m working on covering some basic models in Decision Theory. For my previous post on Cognitive models, click Here. Decision theory in foreign policy analysis has been characterized by a split … Continue reading
