To flee or not to flee: surviving on incomplete information

逃还是不逃：依靠不完整的信息生存

• 批准号: DP0558038
• 负责人: A/Prof Jan Hemmi
• 金额: $ 18.72万
• 依托单位: The Australian National University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2005-01-01 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0558038
• 关键词: flee; surviving; incomplete; information

Even lowly animals, like the Australian fiddler crabs we will be investigating, are surprisingly competent in making the right decisions in complex situations. They actively acquire information and make good use of it to assure their immediate safety and their long term gains. Animals are exquisitely honed by evolution and we would benefit greatly by understanding what makes them so competent: on a theoretical level, we may learn about efficient rules of good decision making and on a practical level, we may be able to design more flexible, robust and clever machines. Besides being useful in this wider context, the results of our research will thus also contribute to a new and 'sophisticated' appreciation of the cognitive design of animal.

即使是地位较低的动物，如我们将要调查的澳大利亚小提蟹，在复杂的情况下也能做出正确的决定，这一点令人惊讶。他们积极获取信息，并很好地利用这些信息，以确保他们的眼前安全和长期利益。动物通过进化得到了精致的磨练，了解是什么让它们如此有能力，我们将大大受益：在理论层面上，我们可能会了解良好决策的有效规则，在实践层面上，我们可能能够设计出更灵活、更健壮、更聪明的机器。除了在这个更广泛的背景下有用之外，我们的研究结果也将有助于对动物认知设计的新的和“复杂的”欣赏。