- 01-163 Rodrick Wallace, PhD
- Adaptation, punctuation, and rate distortion:
non-cognitive 'learning plateaus' in evolutionary process
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Abstract. Extending recent information-theoretic phase transition approaches to
evolutionary and cognitive process via the Rate Distortion Theorem in
the circumstance of interaction with a structured environment suggests
that learning plateaus in cognitive systems and punctuated equilibria
in evolutionary process are formally analogous, even though evolution
is most certainly not cognitive. The result is curiously direct, and
implies that evolutionary theories which do not produce punctuation
are likely to be seriously incomplete
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