Adaptation, punctuation and information: a rate-distortion approach to non-cognitive 'learning plateaus' in evolutionary process.
Adaptation, punctuation and information: a rate-distortion approach to non-cognitive 'learning plateaus' in evolutionary process.
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适应、标点符号和信息:进化过程中非认知“学习高原”的速率扭曲方法。
DOI:
10.1023/a:1016381028734
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发表时间:
2002
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
Wallace,Rodrick
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作者:
Wallace,Rodrick
We extend recent information-theoretic phase transition approaches to evolutionary and cognitive process via the Rate Distortion and Joint Asymptotic Equipartition Theorems, in the circumstance of interaction with a highly structured environment. This suggests that learning plateaus in cognitive systems and punctuated equilibria in evolutionary process are formally analogous, even though evolution is not cognitive. Extending arguments by Adamiet al.(2000), we argue that 'adaptation' is the process by which a distorted genetic image of a coherently structured environment is imposed upon a species.