On Biological Relevance

摘要

Barbara Webb's article advocates using artificial agents and robots to model real animals. The methodology of building artificial creatures to study adaptive behavior brings her close to other people in the field of ALife or adaptive behavior (AB) using a similar synthetic methodology, but far from them in the ultimate goal, as she defines it: whereas hers is in modeling the real animal ("the real target"), others in the field work without any pre-established target.