INFORMATIONAL CONSTRAINTS-DRIVEN ORGANIZATION IN GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOR

作者：Van Dijk Sander G^*; Polani Daniel

来源：Advances in Complex Systems, 2013, 16(2-3): 1350016.

DOI：10.1142/S0219525913500161

• Goal-directed
• constrained cognition
• informational structure
• relevant information
• sub-goals
• goal abstraction
• embrainment

We study goal-directed behavior in the light of informationally constrained cognition. In a formal information-theoretical model, based on a description of goal-directed behavior as a family of Markov Decision Processes, we study lower bounds of constraints on the information about a goal needed to generate behavior that achieves such a goal at a certain level of optimality. We assume a working memory that operates on this minimally relevant goal information and study the necessary dynamics of in and out flow of information for such a working memory. Finally, we formally analyze explicit constraints on goal information pathways as information bottlenecks. Our results show that intrinsic and behavioral organizations, such as ritualized behavior, salient sub-goals, and natural abstractions, appear as a result of the studied informational constraints. We argue that a closed approach to generate a family of organizational concepts in a coherent way by systematically applying cognitive constraints as taken in this work can constitute an important step toward guiding self-organization.

• 出版日期2013-5