Harold. P. de Vladar
ABSTRACT
Naming Games are AI platforms that can account for how conventions in language and culture are achieved. This approach, however, does not account for other cultural features such as contentions. By contentions it is meant that agents learn other agents' traits but decide not to transmit these. This work introduces a version termed Flouted Naming Game which allows convergence to stable states of cultural contentions as an alternative outcome of the Naming Game. Which regime is achieved depends on a basic asymmetry on the cognitive reward of two opposing cultural forms. Moreover, it is found that there is a sharp phase transition between the two behavioural strategies. The transition point is sensitive to population size: larger populations can maintain contentions on a wider range of parameters than smaller populations.
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Index Terms
- The flouted naming game: contentions and conventions in culture
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