RE: Open to explore possibility
February 18, 2021 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2021 at 12:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A non venomous snake mimics the pattern of a venomous snake.... but what utility by fitness would this have if there were no objective pattern of "venomous snake" to other organisms with sufficient ability or access to apprehend an accurate representation of the same?
The fitness over truth theory attempts to demonstrate itself by creating a game which privileges a fitness strategy, so there's no surprise that the fitness strategy wins in that instance. Bringing it into the real world, however - with the water resource collection disparity in the paper - what happens when I hit the fitness strategy machine over the head with a rock? How much water does it's brilliant strategy net it then? Knowing where it's head is, truly, is the only thing I have to know to use this strategy. I don't have to know anything about the resource we're competing over or the distribution of outcomes in monte carlo simulations.
As it turns out, we're pretty good at identifying the location of heads. So good, that we see them where they aren't.
Speaking of, consider fitness v truth in misapprehension. If the game is not getting eaten by a lion, seeing lions where there aren't lions is the winning strategy over a large enough set of direct encounters real and imagined. The game, however, is rigged - it doesn't allow for what a more accurate perception of the truth of the presence of lions would allow you to do with all the time you aren't running away from imaginary lions.
Things like building a fence against lions.
The fitness over truth theory attempts to demonstrate itself by creating a game which privileges a fitness strategy, so there's no surprise that the fitness strategy wins in that instance. Bringing it into the real world, however - with the water resource collection disparity in the paper - what happens when I hit the fitness strategy machine over the head with a rock? How much water does it's brilliant strategy net it then? Knowing where it's head is, truly, is the only thing I have to know to use this strategy. I don't have to know anything about the resource we're competing over or the distribution of outcomes in monte carlo simulations.
As it turns out, we're pretty good at identifying the location of heads. So good, that we see them where they aren't.
Speaking of, consider fitness v truth in misapprehension. If the game is not getting eaten by a lion, seeing lions where there aren't lions is the winning strategy over a large enough set of direct encounters real and imagined. The game, however, is rigged - it doesn't allow for what a more accurate perception of the truth of the presence of lions would allow you to do with all the time you aren't running away from imaginary lions.
Things like building a fence against lions.
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