Causal Entropic Forces
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Author(s)
Freer, Cameron E.
Wissner-Gross, Alexander
Date Issued
April 2013
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Wissner-Gross, A. D., and C. E. Freer. “Causal Entropic Forces.” Physical Review Letters 110.16 (2013). © 2013 American Physical Society
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Abstract
Recent advances in fields ranging from cosmology to computer science have hinted at a possible deep connection between intelligence and entropy maximization, but no formal physical relationship between them has yet been established. Here, we explicitly propose a first step toward such a relationship in the form of a causal generalization of entropic forces that we find can cause two defining behaviors of the human “cognitive niche”—tool use and social cooperation—to spontaneously emerge in simple physical systems. Our results suggest a potentially general thermodynamic model of adaptive behavior as a nonequilibrium process in open systems.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.168702
