Social Embeddedness and Agent Development - Bruce Edmonds

4 Possible Conditions for the Emergence of Social Embedding

• the ability of agents significantly to effect their environment - so that they are not limited to an essentially passive predictive role;

• the co-development of the agents - for example, if agents had co-evolved during a substantial part of the development of their genes then it is likely that this evolution would have taken advantage of the behaviour of the other agents; this would be analogous to the way different mechanisms in one organism develop so that they have multiple and overlapping functions that defy their strict separation [18];

• the existence of exploitable computational resources in the society - so that it would be in the interest of agents to use these resources as opposed to performing the inferences and modelling themselves;

• the possibility of open-ended development by the agents - if the space of possible constructs was essentially small, then the optimal model of the society that the agent inhabited would be feasible for it;

• mechanisms for social distinction, hence the ability to form one-one relationships

• the ability to develop the selection of information sources;

• the ability to frequently sample and probe social information (i.e. gossip), (as in the `social intelligence hypothesis' of [12]).

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