Rationality in the Behaviour of Slime Moulds and the Individual-Collective Duality

摘要

We introduce the notion of the so-called context-based games to describe rationality of the slime mould. In these games we assume that, first, strategies can change permanently, second, players cannot be defined as individuals performing just one action at each time step. They can perform many actions simultaneously. In other words, each player can behave as an individual or as a collective of individuals. This significant feature of context-based games is called individual-collective duality.