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The Limited Utility of Communication in Simple Organisms
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Matthias Scheutz
,
Paul Schermerhorn
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@MISC{Scheutz_thelimited,
author = {Matthias Scheutz and Paul Schermerhorn},
title = {The Limited Utility of Communication in Simple Organisms},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Many forms of communication have evolved in the animal kingdom for different purposes. In this paper we investigate the limits of communication for simple reactive organisms and show that communication has only limited benefits in bi-ologically inspired foraging tasks and can even have detri-mental effects in certain environments. Based on these re-sults, we argue that simple agents with simple architectures need very special environmental conditions for communica-tion to benefit them and thus to evolve.
