Small steps for mankind: Modeling the emergence of cumulative culture from joint active inference communication.

ABSTRACT: Although the increase in the use of dynamical modeling in the literature on cultural evolution makes current models more mathematically sophisticated, these models have yet to be tested or validated. This paper provides a testable deep active inference formulation of social behavior and accompanying simulations of cumulative culture in two steps: First, we cast cultural transmission as a bi-directional process of communication that induces a generalized synchrony (operationalized as a particular convergence) between the belief states of interlocutors. Second, we cast social or cultural exchange as a process of active inference by equipping agents with the choice of who to engage in communication with. This induces trade-offs between confirmation of current beliefs and exploration of the so

SUBMITTER: Kastel N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9868743 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature