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DESCRIPTION: Division of labour is fundamental to the functioning of societ
 ies and socially living organisms. While it has been central to their stud
 y for decades\, no complete picture has emerged yet. Some of the most fasc
 inating questions arise in the context of self-organised societies\, such 
 as those of social insects\, which coordinate their behaviour with complet
 ely decentralised simple decision-making performed by individuals that onl
 y have local information at their disposal. Based on empirical evidence\, 
 these collectives appear to balance task engagement globally across their 
 whole task network for the benefit of the colony overall. How can this pro
 -social coordination be achieved by independently acting individuals? How 
 is a global workforce balancing possible based on only local perception wi
 th no knowledge of the global colony status or needs? How can information 
 flow through the task network\, so that a changed task demand in one part 
 of the network can lead to adjustments in distant other parts? We detail a
  model that presents a potential answer to this conundrum. Our model is in
 formed by evolutionary game theory and rests on the assumption that the pe
 rception of an individual’s sensory input can evolve. We present a conce
 ptual argument and simulation studies to show that pro-social behaviour wi
 ll evolve in a collective of agents that adjust their behaviour using prim
 itive reinforcement mechanisms if we assume an evolving perception functio
 n\nSpeaker: Bernd Meyer 
LAST-MODIFIED:20251105T072952Z
LOCATION:University of Konstanz + online\, Room: ZT1202
ORGANIZER;CN=Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior:mailto:mdagher@ab.mpg.
 de
SUMMARY:Collective Behavior Seminar by Bernd Meyer: Evolution of objectives
  can enable prosocial behaviour without social awareness
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.ab.mpg.de/events/43734/2736
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