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Simulation and Analysis of Shared Extended Mind

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Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS 2004)

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Some types of animals exploit patterns created in the environment as external mental states, thus obtaining an extension of their mind. In the case of social animals the creation and exploitation of such patterns can be shared, which supports a form of shared extended mind or collective intelligence. This paper explores this shared extended mind principle for social animals in more detail. Its main goal is to analyse and formalise the dynamic properties of the processes involved, both at the local level (the basic mechanisms) and the global level (the emerging properties of the whole), and their relationships. A case study in social ant behaviour in which shared extended mind plays an important role is used as illustration. For this case simulations are described based on specifications of local properties, and global properties are specified and verified.

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  1. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081a, NL-1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Martijn C. Schut & Jan Treur

  2. Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 8, 3584 CS, Utrecht

    Jan Treur

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  1. Department of Systems and Software Engineering, School of Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, 372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

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  2. School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Brian Logan

  3. Tokyo Institute of Technology, 152-8550, tokyo, Japan

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Bosse, T., Jonker, C.M., Schut, M.C., Treur, J. (2005). Simulation and Analysis of Shared Extended Mind. In: Davidsson, P., Logan, B., Takadama, K. (eds) Multi-Agent and Multi-Agent-Based Simulation. MABS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3415. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32243-6_20

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