Transfers by force and deception lead to stability in an evolutionary learning process when controlled by net profit but not by turnover

Thomas Friedrich

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Abstract: An evolutionary process is characterized by heritable variation through random mutation, positive selection of the fittest, and random genetic drift. A learning process can be similarly organized and does not need insight or understanding. Instructions are changed randomly, evaluated, and better instructions are propagated. While evolution of an enzyme or a company is a long-lasting process (change of hardware) learning is a fast process (change of software). In my model the basic ensemble consists of a source and a sink. Both have saturating benefit functions (b) and linear cost functions (c). In cost domination (b-c 0) sink takes it - both at free will - thus creating a basic superadditivity. It is not reasonable to give when b-c>0 or take when b-c

Keywords: ensemble; source; sink; transfer space; superadditivity; subadditivity; master (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-03-13
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