Some Adaptive Advantages of the Ability to Make Predictions
Daniele Caligiore, Massimo Tria, Domenico Parisi · Lecture notes in computer science · 2006
We describe some simple simulations showing two possible adaptive advantages of the ability to predict the consequences of one’s actions: predicted inputs can replace missing inputs and predicted success vs. failure can help deciding whether to actually executing a planned action or not. The neural networks controlling the organisms’ behaviour include distinct modules whose connection weights are all genetically inherited and evolved using a genetic algorithm except those of the predictive module which are learned during life. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.