creators_name: Loula, Angelo creators_name: Gudwin, Ricardo creators_name: El-Hani, Charbel creators_name: Queiroz, João type: confpaper datestamp: 2005-08-20 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:09 metadata_visibility: show title: The Emergence of Symbol-Based Communication in a Complex System of Artificial Creatures ispublished: pub subjects: comp-sci-lang subjects: phil-lang subjects: bio-ani-cog subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory subjects: comp-sci-art-intel subjects: bio-ani-behav full_text_status: public abstract: We present here a digital scenario to simulate the emergence of self-organized symbol-based communication among artificial creatures inhabiting a virtual world of predatory events. In order to design the environment and creatures, we seek theoretical and empirical constraints from C.S.Peirce Semiotics and an ethological case study of communication among animals. Our results show that the creatures, assuming the role of sign users and learners, behave collectively as a complex system, where self-organization of communicative interactions plays a major role in the emergence of symbol-based communication. We also strive for a careful use of the theoretical concepts involved, including the concepts of symbol, communication, and emergence, and we use a multi-level model as a basis for the interpretation of inter-level relationships in the semiotic processes we are studying. date: 2005 date_type: published refereed: TRUE referencetext: J. Queiroz and C. N. El-Hani, “Towards a multi-level approach to the emergence of semiosis in semiotic systems,” Technical Reports DCA-FEEC-UNICAMP, DCA04-07, 2004. A. Gomes, R. Gudwin and J. Queiroz, ‘Towards Meaning Processes in Computers from Peircean Semiotics,” S.E.E.D. Journal -- Semiotics, Evolution, Energy, and Development 3 (2), 69-79, 2003. C. S. Peirce, The Essential Peirce: selected philosophical writings, Vol. 2, Peirce Edition Project (Ed.), Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1893-1913. [Quoted as EP2, followed by page number] C. S. Peirce, The Collected Papers of Charles S. Peirce, Vols. I-VI, C. Hartshorne and P. Weiss (Eds.), Cambridge: Harvard University, 1931-1935. [Quoted as CP, followed by volume and paragraph number] A. Stephan, “Varieties of Emergence in Artificial and Natural Systems,” Zeitschrift für Naturforschung 53c, 639- 656, 1998. A. Stephan, Emergenz: Von der Unvorhersagbarkeit zur Selbstorganisation, Dresden and München: Dresden University Press, 1999. J. Fetzer, “Thinking and Computing: Computers as Special Kinds of Signs,” Minds and Machines 7, 345–364, 1997. A. Gomes, C. N. El-Hani, R. Gudwin and J. Queiroz, “Towards the emergence of meaning processes in computers from Peircean semiotics”, Proceedings of the European Computing and Philosophy Conference, E-CAP 2004, Pavia, Italy, forthcoming. S. N. Salthe, Evolving Hierarchical Systems: Their Structure and Representation, New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. A. Loula, R. Gudwin and J. Queiroz, “Symbolic Communication in Artificial Creatures: an experiment in Artificial Life,” Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 3171, 336 – 345, 2004. citation: Loula, Angelo and Gudwin, Ricardo and El-Hani, Charbel and Queiroz, João (2005) The Emergence of Symbol-Based Communication in a Complex System of Artificial Creatures. [Conference Paper] document_url: http://cogprints.org/4508/1/Loula%2Bet%2Bal--2005--The-Emergence-of-Symbol-Based-Communication-in-a-Complex-System-of-Artificial-Creatures.pdf