creators_name: Wakeling, Joseph creators_name: Bak, Per creators_id: JWakeling creators_id: type: preprint datestamp: 2003-09-19 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:20 metadata_visibility: show title: Intelligent systems in the context of surrounding environment subjects: comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys subjects: neuro-mod subjects: comp-sci-neural-nets full_text_status: public keywords: Neuroscience; Neural networks; Self-organized systems note: Published in Physical Review E 64, 051920 (2001). abstract: We investigate the behavioral patterns of a population of agents, each controlled by a simple biologically motivated neural network model, when they are set in competition against each other in the Minority Model of Challet and Zhang. We explore the effects of changing agent characteristics, demonstrating that crowding behavior takes place among agents of similar memory, and show how this allows unique `rogue' agents with higher memory values to take advantage of a majority population. We also show that agents' analytic capability is largely determined by the size of the intermediary layer of neurons. In the context of these results, we discuss the general nature of natural and artificial intelligence systems, and suggest intelligence only exists in the context of the surrounding environment (embodiment). Source code for the programs used can be found at http://neuro.webdrake.net/. date: 2001-10 date_type: published refereed: TRUE referencetext: [1] D. R. Chialvo and P. Bak, Neuroscience 90, 1137 (1999); P. Bak and D. R. Chialvo, Phys. Rev. E 63, 031912 (2001). [2] R. Metzler, W. Kinzel and I. Kanter, Phys. Rev. E 62, 2555 (2000). [3] D. Challet and Y.-C. Zhang, Physica A 246, 407 (1997). [4] W. B. Arthur, Pap. Proc. Annu. Meet. Am. Econ. Assoc. 84, 406 (1994). [5] K. Lindgren and M. G. Nordahl, Physica D 75, 292 (1994). [6] F. Crick and C. Koch, Cereb. Cortex 8, 97 (1998). citation: Wakeling, Joseph and Bak, Per (2001) Intelligent systems in the context of surrounding environment. [Preprint] document_url: http://cogprints.org/3151/1/mbpp.pdf document_url: http://cogprints.org/3151/2/mbpp.ps